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Eli's Swashbuckling Adventures

tales from the Industrial Revolution

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~Industrial Revolution: a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-

1700s.

Vocab from the North

~mass production: the efficient production of large numbers of identical good.

~interchangeable parts: a process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that called for 

making each part of a machine exactly the same.

~unions: workers’ organizations that try to improve working conditions.

~Transportation Revolution: the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of 

transportation. 

~Gibbons v. Ogden: (1824) a Supreme Court ruling that reinforced the federal 

government’s authority over the states 

~telegraph: a machine perfected by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1832 that uses pulses of electric 

current to send messages across long distances through wires.

~Morse Code: a system developed by Alfred Lewis Vail for the telegraph that used a 

certain combination of dots and dashes to represent each letter of the alphabet.

~urbanization: the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city.

~industrialism: the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical 

enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc. 

~business practices:   A method, procedure, process, or rule employed or followed by a 

company in the pursuit of its objectives.

~child labor: the gainful employment of children below an age determined by law or 

custom. 

~steamboats: a steam-driven vessel, especially a small one or one used on inland waters. 

Address Book

-Slater, Samuel: English industrialist who brought a design for a textile mill to America, he is 

considered the founder of the American cotton industry

TELEGRAPH...

Samuel F. B. Morse: (1791–1872) 

American artist and inventor, he 

applied scientists’ discoveries of 

electricity and magnetism to develop 

the telegraph, which soon sent messages 

all across the country.

"Well, this is my stop!"

The production 

of cotton has 

become a bit 

expensive, and 

there is a large 

consumption 

rate of the 

water we use 

for powering 

our whole 

business. 

Textile 

machines 

helped to 

revolutionize 

industry by 

increasing 

production 10 

times. It has 

also provided 

many new 

jobs.

     "Ms. Catherine is a good friend of mine. 

After I had completed my degree in 1792, I 

went to South Carolina to work as a tutor for a 

wealthy planter's family. Alas, as soon as I 

arrived, the position seemed to have been 

filled. I had little money and no prospects. 

Soon after, I received an invitation to stay as a 

guest at Mulberry Grove in Georgia (Ms. 

Catherine's plantation). The widow of the 

famed General Nathanael Greene allowed me 

to pursue my dreams of the invention world. In 

fact, it was at her residence where I invented 

the cotton gin."

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