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Industrial Revolution Comes to America

The Industrial Revolution began in England in the last half of the 18th century. Many of the goods produced in England’s factories found their way into the hands of American consumers. By the late 18th and early 19th century the Industrial Revolution was beginning to make it way to our shores.

1. Who is Samuel Slater? What role did he play in the start of the Industrial Revolution?

2. What is free enterprise? How did it help the Industrial Revolution start and spread in the U.S.?

3. What are textiles (use dictionary or outside source)? What role did they play in the Industrial Revolution?

4. What was the role of water in the factories of the late 18th and early 19th centuries?

Fill in the following chart with inventions that revolutionized the listed areas

(* = Not Found in Textbook)

|Transportation |

|must be different types of transportation |

|Invention |Inventor |Date |Purpose of |What did it |

| | | |Invention |replace? |

| | | | | |

| |*John Stevens |*1826 | | |

|Communication |

|Invention |Inventor |Date |Purpose of |What did it |

| | | |Invention |replace? |

| | | | | |

|Agriculture |

|should involve actually planting or harvesting crops |

|Invention |Inventor |Date |Purpose of |What did it |

| | | |Invention |replace? |

| | | | | |

| | | | | |

|Manufacturing (invented by the same man) |

|involves the process of turning raw materials into something |

|Invention |Inventor |Date |Purpose of |What did it |

| | | |Invention |replace? |

| | | | | |

| | | | | |

12. What connection exists between transportation innovation and communication innovation?

How did the following inventions impact the American economy?

| |How the North was affected |How the south was affected |

| | | |

|Invention | | |

|Cotton gin | | |

|Interchangeable parts | | |

15. Why are the new agricultural inventions going to make it possible for more labor in factories?

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