The Industrial Age

A time when factory machines replaced hand tools and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main work.

• Industrial Revolution

• Lowell Mills

• Interchangeable Parts

A system that brought many workers and machines together under one roof.

• Lowell Mills

• Interchangeable Parts

• Factory System

Who built the first spinning mill in Rhode Island

• Samuel F. B. Morse

• Samuel Slater

• Robert Fulton

Early factories in Massachusetts that made cloth

• Lowell Mills

• Interchangeable parts

• Factory System

Parts that were exactly alike

• Interchangeable parts

• Factory System

• Lowell Mills

Inventer of the steamboat

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel F. B. Morse

• Samuel Slater

Inventor of the telegraph

• Nat Turner

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• Robert Fulton

Inventor of the cotton gin

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• Nat Turner

Invention that made the cotton-cleaning process easier

• Spinning Machine

• Cotton Gin

• Morse Code

Leader of a famous slave rebellion in 1831

• Nat Turner

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel F.B. Morse