1. On your sheet of paper, copy the following:
What is the industrial revolution?
2 inventions of Eli Whitney and their effects: 1) 2)

2. Eli Whitney and the Industrial Revolution
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Name given to the period in the 19th century when power driven machines replaced hand tools
Machines could be used by semiskilled or unskilled workers

3. Cotton Gin What did it do? Effect?
Rapidly removed seeds from the cotton
Effect?
Gave a rebirth to slavery

4. Interchangeable Parts
What did it do?
Only have to repair the broken part, instead of having to make a whole new machine
Effect?
Eventually led to mass production

5. Eli Whitney
Draw a comic strip that demonstrates what the Industrial Revolution was and how Whitney’s inventions represented it.
Cotton gin
Interchangeable parts

6. Comic Strip Example