Sunday, March 1, 2015

5th Social Studies - 3/2/15

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1biE9eLPzhp1-ATvxizCNjIMzh0oZcCqiZ-zFIbMqYOw/pub

Homework

3/5 - Copy vocabulary words in NB

1.  Industrial Revolution -took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban.

2.  Cotton gin - machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1793.

3.  interchangeable parts -parts that are designed to fit in any device of the same type, rather than being designed for one specific item, and they revolutionized the world of manufacturing. With their development, the groundwork for mass manufacturing and distribution was laid, and the Industrial Revolution was born.

4.  reaper - a farming tool or person that reaps (cuts and gathers) crops at harvest, when they are ripe.

5.  Samuel Slater - The English-born American manufacturer Samuel Slater (1768-1835) built the first successful cotton mill in the United States, in 1790.

6.  Eli Whitney - (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.

7.  Francis Cabot Lowell -The city of Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, son of John Lowell, a wealthy businessman who built a successful textile mill in Lowell, MA.

8.  Cyrus McCormick -whose invention of the mechanical reaper revolutionized farming across the world.

9. John Deere -crafted his famous steel plow in his blacksmith shop in 1837, he also forged the beginnings of Deere & Company—a company that today does business around the world and employs more than 50,000 people.


10.  Lowell, Massachusetts  - The City of Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell