Industrial Revolution
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Look at the picture above. What is it? How did it work?
When and where did the Industrial Revoution begin?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
What was the Enclosure Movement, and how did it impact the Industrial Revolution?
How did changes in farming affect the growth of the cities?
Where (just north of us) did a factory town immerge?
What replaced water mills, and how did this affect the location of factories?
Describe the growth of New York city in the 1800s.
Why were Thomas Jefferson and Alexis de Tocqueville concerned about life in the cities?
Describe who lived where in the city. Where did the wealthy live, the middle class, and the poor working class?
By the late 1800s, what becomes the building block of America?
Consider the chart above.
a. Does the rural population increase or decrease between 1850 and 1900?
b. Does the urban population increase of decrease between 1850 and 1900?
c. Why?
Where was Eli Whitney from?
Why did Whitney travel to the South?
Why was cotton unprofitable?
How did Whitney's cotton gin quicken the pace of cotton cleaning?
Why did Whitney struggle to make a profit from his new invention?
How did the invention of the cotton gin fuel the slave trade?
Was Whitney's idea of interchangeable parts successfull?
What title did Whitney earn for his innovations.
Describe Whitneyville.
Where and when did Whitney die?
Consider the chart above and what you learned in the reading.
1. Was there any year between 1800 and 1860 when either the number of slaves or the productio of cotton decreased?
2. What can you tell from the graph about the connection between cotton production and the number of slaves?
What do you notice in the pictures above? What is difficult or easy to harvest cotton? Why?
Why was the United States looking to buy guns?