Industrial Revolution Scavenger Hunt
Q. What did textile manufacturers do to keep the cost of running a mill low?
what did textile manufacturers do to keep the costs of running a mill low? hired children and payed them very little. the “rhode island system” was samuel slater’s strategy of doing what?
Q. How did Machines change the textile industry?
Machinery during the Industrial Revolution such as the spinning wheel to produce textiles, the water wheel used to power machinery and the steam engine were invented. These inventions aided in speeding up the production of manufactured items.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 20.Who developed the telegraph? | Samuel F.B. Morse |
| 21.Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts? | Eli Whitney |
| 22.What invention allowed for several threads to be spun at once thus allowing for many threads to be made faster and cheaper? | spinning jenny |
Q. What made productions faster and cheaper?
The cotton gin made production of cotton increase, made it cheaper, and made it easier. This led to mass production where things could be made easier, cheaper, and faster.
Q. What was the first mill in America?
In December 1790, working for mill owner Moses Brown, he started up the first permanent American cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Employing a workforce of nine children between the ages of 7 and 12, Slater successfully mechanized the carding and spinning processes.
Q. Who built the first cotton mill in America?
Slater
Q. When was the factory invented?
Richard Arkwright is the person credited with inventing the prototype of the modern factory. After he patented his water frame in 1769, he established Cromford Mill, in Derbyshire, England, significantly expanding the village of Cromford to accommodate the migrant workers new to the area.
Q. What were workers in the Lowell Mills called?
By 1840, the factories in Lowell employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. These “operatives”—so-called because they operated the looms and other machinery—were primarily women and children from farming backgrounds.
Q. What were the Lowell mills used for?
The Lowell System was not only more efficient but was also designed to minimize the dehumanizing effects of industrial labor by paying in cash, hiring young adults instead of children, offering employment for only a few years and by providing educational opportunities to help workers move on to better jobs, such as …
