The Industrial Revolution & Free Enterprise System

Multiple Choice

Define the Industrial Revolution.

• When production moved from factories to homes.

• When production moved from homes to factories

• When production decreased

• When production stopped

Multiple Choice

Where were most factories built before the steam engine was invented?

• in the mountains

• in the desert

• along rivers

• anywhere

Multiple Choice

Where did most of the "Lowell girls" live before they came to the mills?

• Cities

• Towns

• Farms

• Slums

Multiple Choice

Many women experienced expanded economic opportunities during the nineteenth century because —

• many men left to fight in a foreign war for several years

• raw materials from farms were in high demand by industry

• factory jobs provided many women independence and wages

• a constitutional amendment recognized women’s voting rights

Multiple Choice

The movement of people to cities and their growth is called…

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Urbanization

• Absorption

Multiple Choice

The free-enterprise system:

• kept government from heavily taxing industries

• prevented Britain from taking natural resources

• decreased dependence on slave labor

• tight government control of factory profits

Multiple Choice

A free enterprise system is when people...

• have the freedom to make their own choices in deciding what to buy, where to work, and what to make.

• are free to believe in whatever religion they choose.

• have the freedom to build businesses that support the national economy.

• are free to develop ideas that challenge authority.

Multiple Choice

The production of ________ was one of the first industries to be affected by the Industrial Revolution.

• textiles

• automobiles

• cooking equipment

• furniture

Multiple Choice

Which of the following WERE the reasons why New England was the perfect place to build textile factories?

• poor soil, hot summers, and cotton

• rivers/streams, cotton, slave labor

• ports, cotton, and slave labor

• poor soil, many ports, and many rivers and streams

Multiple Choice

Which manufacturing system completed all steps of producing a product in one place?

• corporations

• capital system

• factory system

• patent system