Industrial Revolution

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A key factor in the rapid growth of business

• lack of immigrant work

• advances in transportation

• high cost production

• continued government interference

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The mass production of goods by large factories resulted in

• greater costs for production

• less efficient means of production

• higher prices for customers

• lower prices for customers

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With industrialization growing rapidly, it

• forced people from the crowded cities

• created a need for more workers

• put an end to immigration

• encouraged business owners to start charities

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fabric that is woven

• technology
• textile
• economy
• industrialization

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Why were railroads so important during this time?

• they moved goods more quickly and less expensively over greater distances
• they were fun to ride on to go visit family in other states
• people could ride on railroads to get to their jobs in another city

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Who invented the telegraph?

• Elias Howe
• Eli Whitney
• Samuel Slater
• Samuel Morse

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Which statement is true?

• Children were not allowed to work in the mines during the Industrial Revolution

• Work conditions were closely controlled by the government.

• There were no labor laws that prevented children from working

• Children were allowed to work but they were treated fairly.

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What technology revolutionized farming in the west? 

• Steel plows, mechanical reapers, and windmills
• Morse code
• Internet
• Hydroelectricity

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What did the Homestead Act of 1861 allow settlers to do?

• Go to war with Native Americans
• Own the land that they settled on after 5 years
• Establish the sharecropping system
• Make peace with the Native Americans

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What were Boom Towns?

• Towns that were developed when gold and silver was found in a particular place. 
• Towns that were abandoned after the gold and silver mines were depleted.
• Towns where dynamite was found
• Towns where loud sounds were often heard.

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Which innovation used to make automobiles more quickly and cheaply revolutionized factories in all industries

• the elevator safety brake

• the assembly line

• the light bulb

• the refrigerator car

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Many factories used child labor because

• children could read and write better than their parents

• children were more efficient than other workers

• children could be paid less than adults

• parents wanted their children to have job experience

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The majority of immigrants coming to the U.S. chose to live

• on farms in rural areas

• in ethnic neighborhoods

• on the western frontier on farms

• in the surburbs

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Who created the Standard Oil Company?

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

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The 1886 Haymarket Square riot in Chicago led to the

• formation of the Knights of Labor

• widespread use of child labor

• decline of the Knights of Labor

• formation of the American Federation of Labor

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The AFL was different from the Knights of Labor because the AFL

• accepted both skilled and unskilled workers

• organized individual workers into one large union

• accepted only railroad workers

• accepted only skilled workers

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"You can have your car in any color, as long as it is black". Who said this quote?

• Henry Ford

• John D Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

• George Eastman

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The development of the light bulb

• paved the way for the phonograph

• was Bell Laboratory's greatest achievement

• allowed factories to operate 24 hours a day

• was a breakthrough in mechanical theory

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The airplane was invented by:

• The Wright Brothers
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Mercedes Benz

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Why did immigration to the US increase in the late 1800s?

• Economic Hardship

• Political & Religious Persecution

• Adventure

• All of the above

Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

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Materials that occur in nature that can be made into products to be sold

• labor

• manufactured goods

• natural resources

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Work or workers

• labor

• capital

• boycott

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Relating to the countryside

• urban

• manufactured

• rural

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Relating to the city

• urban

• rural

• agriculture

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activities related to turning raw materials into manufactured goods

• natural resources

• industry

• urbanization

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growth of cities and movement of people to cities

• urbanization

• rural

• manufacturing

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large building to house machinery that makes goods

• cottage

• factory

• urbanization

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related to farming

• urban

• industry

• agriculture

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switch from man made to machine made goods

• industrialziation

• ruralization

• urbanization

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related to machines, use of machines to make products

• rural

• mechanical

• factory

Industrial Revolution Review

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Multiple Choice

The Industrial Revolution took place in:

• the country

• small towns

• big cities

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What happened to cities as the Industrial Revolution took over?

• people moved to the country

• they became overcrowded

Open Ended

List one new method of transportation as a result of the Industrial Revolution.

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Why were working conditions so bad for factory workers?

• because all the workers were children

• because there were no laws to protect them

• because no one complained

Industrial Revolution: Changes in Working Life

Mills Changed Workers Lives

• Mill owners could not find people to work in factories because other jobs were avaliable

• Slater (mill owner) began hiring entire families

  • Filled labor needs at low cost

  • Adults and children worked in mills

  • Children worked for cheap allowing a profit

  • Rhode Island System: Hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks​

• ​Samuel Slater and his brother created a mill town Slatersville

  • Mill working families moved there to live and work​

  • Was a fully functioning town​

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​Slatersville

Open Ended

What problem did Slater have in his mills? How did he solve it?

​This advertisement appeared in a Massachusetts newspaper in 1823 requesting that families come work at a factory.

• The Lowell System was based on water-powered ​textile mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin threat and weave cloth in the same mill.

  • A chance to earn their own money

  • "Lowell Girls"​

• Lived in boarding houses, room and meals provided

  Encouraged to take classes in their free time at the women's club​

• Cotton dust began causing health issues​

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The Lowell System

• Factories produced low-priced goods, hard for shops to compete.

• Worker wages dropped, immigrants from poorer countries were willing to work for less

  • Financial Panic of 1837: many unemplyed competed for jobs​

• Trade Unions: groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions

  • Employers didnt want to hire union workers= cost eliminated competition

  • ​Strikes: staged protests refusing work until demands are met

  • Police and courts generally suported factories, not those on strike​

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Workers Organize

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Name of the system that employed unmarried women from family farms to run mills.

• Rhode Island System

• Lowell System

• Mill System

• Cabot System