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Industrial Revolution

  • Game Code: 1498405
  •  English    23     Public
    Lesson 1,2,3
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  • What were some of the effects of increased urbanization in the cities as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
    Industrial Revolution
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  • What invention helped to make the cleaning of cotton faster and easier? Who invented it?
    cotton gin, Eli Whitney
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  • What impact did the steamboat have?
    It made it easier to travel upstream and improved the shipping of goods (more efficient)
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  • What idea did Eli Whitney develop which allowed for the mass production of identical machine made parts?
    interchangeable parts
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  • Who were the typical workers in the factories?
    women and children
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  • What inventions helped to improve the area of agriculture? (3)
    steel plow, cotton gin, and mechanical reaper, seed drill, Horse drawn hoe
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  • Who invented the telegraph?
    Samuel F. B. Morse
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  • What invention made steam power available for mechanical purposes?
    steam engine
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  • What invention helped to improve communication over long distances?
    telegraph
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  • How did this invention impact life in the United States?
    It made the cleaning of cotton more efficient but also increased slavery
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  • What source powered the textile mills first?
    water
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  • What is Vulcanization?
    The basis of the modern rubber industry
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  • What factors led to the rise of the middle class
    being well educated
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  • What did Jethro Tull invent?
    Seed drill & Horse drawn hoe
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  • TRUE or FALSE: During the 1500s & 1600s, Europeans began using fencing public lands
    True
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