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Ch. 10 Inventions/Inventors
Ch. 10 Inventions/Inventors Quiz-Bashara& North v. South-Bashara
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8th Grade
02/18/2009

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Eli Whitney
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Inventor of the cotton gin:  removed seeds from the cotton fibers which increased the production of  cotton and slavery

 

Inventor of interchangeable parts:  unifrom pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces

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Telegraph
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a method of communication that used electric signals to transmit messages
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Elias Howe
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Inventor of the sewing machine
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canal
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artificial waterway
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Erie Canal
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Connects the Hudson River with Lake Erie joining the East with the Midwest
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urban
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cities
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rural
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country

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Robert Fulton

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Inventor of the steamboat named Clermont
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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launched the factory system and opened a textile plant in Massachusetts
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Industrial Revolution
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time period beginning in Great Britian in the 1800s A change from an agricultural (farming) society to one based on industry and manufacturing goods..the Industrial Revolution expanded into the U.S. starting mainly in New England's region
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a system for transmitting messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent the letters of the alphabet
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Morse Code...invented by Samuel Morse
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turnpike
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road you must pay to use
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Samuel Slater
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worked in a factory spinning cotton into thread and memorized the spinning machine and duplicated it in the U.S.
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Bessemer Steel Process by Henry Bessemer
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allows for mass production of steel so steel could now be made cheaper which fuled the Industrial Revolution

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McCormick Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
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mechanical machine to cut wheat which allowed farmers to speed up the process of harvesting wheat , increasing production
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John Deere
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invented the steel-tipped plow to easily cut grass
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factory workers
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immigrants:  mainly Irish and Germans

young women & children

unskilled workers

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