Industrial Revolution

Master Industrial Revolution inventions! Match definitions for cotton gin, railroad, and more.

Match up correct definitions with invention cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney and led to an increase in slavery railroad helps speed up westward expansion,built by Chinese and Irish,opens new markets for goods interchangeable parts invented by Eli Whitney which leads to mass production and cheaper goods steamboat leads to faster transportation of goods and able to move up rivers Erie Canal connects Midwest to Atlantic ocean through New York and leads to growth of cities in the Northeast urbanization the process of moving from rural to urban for jobs and building up of cities factories mainly in the Northeast where they made textiles,immigrants, children, and women worked them