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Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
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6th Grade
01/25/2018

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What is an assembly line?
Definition
Each worker is responsible for one specific job
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What are interchangeable parts?
Definition
Identical parts that make building and fixing things easier
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What is a steamboat?
Definition
A boat powered by a steam engine
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What is a locomotive?
Definition
A train
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What is a canal?
Definition
A man-made waterway helping ships move between two larger bodies of water
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What is the Industrial Revolution?
Definition
A time period where people started using factories and machines to make life easier
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What are the dangers of working in a factory?
Definition
blood loss, loss of body parts, loss of hearing, working too many hours, black lung, breathing in cotton dust
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What entertainment did factory workers have?
Definition
plays, shopping, dances
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What was the average day like for a factory worker?
Definition
They got up early, went to work, ate, and went to sleep.
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Why did children work in factories?
Definition
Their families needed the money and they were paid less.
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What was once a factory town?
Definition
Trenton and Lowell
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What inventions revolutionized or changed transportation?
Definition
steamboat, locomotive (train
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Why can assembly lines produce more stuff than working by hand can?
Definition
By having more people helping to make the same item, you can make it faster.
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What area of land did Lewis and Clark map and travel through?
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Louisiana Purchase
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Which reform movement did Horace Mann lead?
Definition
Education Reform
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Which reform movement did Frederick Douglass lead?
Definition
Abolition (anti-slavery) Movement
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Which reform movement did Dorothea Dix lead?
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Prison Reform
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Which reform movement did Elizabeth Cady Stanton lead?
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Women's Rights
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Define textiles.
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Clothing
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Who were the Lowell Girls?
Definition
Young women who moved from the local farm to Lowell to work in the textile (clothing) factories.
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What were the benefits of Lewis and Clark's trip?
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Made friends with the Native Americans, mapped the Louisiana Purchase, discovered new plants and animals
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