Industry Review People/Inventors

1. Industry ReviewPeople/Inventors • Inventor of the Cotton Gin • Man given credit for the first successful steamboat- • Immigrant who brought the secret of England’s textile machines to the U.S.- • Man who demonstrated the possibility of using interchangeable parts by assembling guns from a pile of parts – • Inventor of a horse-drawn reaper that cut grain faster – • Man who built the first efficient sewing machine driven by a foot treadle –

2. Industry ReviewPeople/Inventors • Designer and builder of the first practical steam locomotive – • Man who thought of dots and dashes to convey messages across telegraph wires – • Man who improved farming by making plowshares out of steel instead of cast iron – • Man who accidentally discovered that heating rubber makes it more useful – • Man who made his fortune with steamships and went on to control the New York Central Railroad – • Man who developed a new factory where spinning, dyeing, and weaving were together in one building –

3. Industry ReviewPlaces • Kind of community to which people began moving to be near their work – • Section of the nation that welcomed the invention of the cotton gin – • This connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River – • Country in which the Industrial Revolution began – • Sources of power along which early factories were located – • River that the Erie Canal followed – • Section of the U.S. where most of the early factories were found –

4. Industry ReviewPlaces and Uses • Two cities joined by the first telegraph line – • State that boasted the first water-powered textile factory in the country – • River on which the Clermont was first seen – • Means of sending messages using the telegraph – • Fee charged to use many roads in the 1800s – • Name given to the first steam locomotive – • Device that allowed messages to travel rapidly between Europe and the U.S. – • Activity for which a post road was used –

5. Industry ReviewPlaces, People, and Essentials • Place where workers make a product – • The first important factories in the United States – • Most of the work on the Southern plantations was done by these people – • Term that describes the drastic change during the 1800s in the way things were produced and distributed – • Process in which interchangeable parts allowed huge amounts of goods to be produced – • People who came to the U.S. to work in factories – • Eli Whitney’s idea: a series of parts that would fit any model of a given product – • War that spurred the growth of American manufacturing – • Using tools and knowledge to improve conditions -

6. Industry ReviewPeople/Inventors • Inventor of the Cotton Gin • Man given credit for the first successful steamboat- • Immigrant who brought the secret of England’s textile machines to the U.S.- • Man who demonstrated the possibility of using interchangeable parts by assembling guns from a pile of parts – • Inventor of a horse-drawn reaper that cut grain faster – • Man who built the first efficient sewing machine driven by a foot treadle – • Eli Whitney • Robert Fulton • Samuel Slater • Eli Whitney • Cyrus McCormick • Isaac Singer

7. Industry ReviewPeople/Inventors • Designer and builder of the first practical steam locomotive – • Man who thought of dots and dashes to convey messages across telegraph wires – • Man who improved farming by making plowshares out of steel instead of cast iron – • Man who accidentally discovered that heating rubber makes it more useful – • Man who made his fortune with steamships and went on to control the New York Central Railroad – • Man who developed a new factory where spinning, dyeing, and weaving were together in one building – • Peter Cooper • Samuel Morse • John Deere • Charles Goodyear • Cornelius Vanderbilt • Francis Cabot Lowell

8. Industry ReviewPlaces • Kind of community to which people began moving to be near their work – • Section of the nation that welcomed the invention of the cotton gin – • This connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River – • Country in which the Industrial Revolution began – • Sources of power along which early factories were located – • River that the Erie Canal followed – • Section of the U.S. where most of the early factories were found – • City • South • Erie Canal • Great Britain • Rivers • Mohawk R. • New England

9. Industry ReviewPlaces and Uses • Two cities joined by the first telegraph line – • State that boasted the first water-powered textile factory in the country – • River on which the Clermont was first seen – • Means of sending messages using the telegraph – • Fee charged to use many roads in the 1800s – • Name given to the first steam locomotive – • Device that allowed messages to travel rapidly between Europe and the U.S. – • Activity for which a post road was used – • Washington DC and Baltimore, MD • Rhode Island • Albany • Morse Code • Toll • Tom Thumb • Telegraph • Mail delivery

10. Industry ReviewPlaces, People, and Essentials • Place where workers make a product – • The first important factories in the United States – • Most of the work on the Southern plantations was done by these people – • Term that describes the drastic change during the 1800s in the way things were produced and distributed – • Process in which interchangeable parts allowed huge amounts of goods to be produced – • People who came to the U.S. to work in factories – • Eli Whitney’s idea: a series of parts that would fit any model of a given product – • War that spurred the growth of American manufacturing – • Using tools and knowledge to improve conditions - • Factories • New England Textile mills • Slaves • Industrial Revolution • Mass production • Immigrants • Interchangeable parts • War of 1812 • Technology