25-26 HESTER Industrial Revolution: Factories

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Match the word to it's definition. Use your vocabulary list to help you.

• Using machines and factories to make goods faster, cheaper, and in larger amounts instead of making everything by hand at home

• Invented by Eli Whitney that quickly and efficiently separates cotton fibers from their seeds

• An economic system that allows individuals to buy, sell, and produce goods with minimal government intervention

• Development of new or improved technologies, tools, and ideas that improve how people work and live

• A type of fabric or cloth commonly used in the manufacturing of clothing and other goods

Industrialization

Cotton Gin

Free Enterprise

Innovation

Textile

• Industrialization

• Cotton Gin

• Free Enterprise

• Innovation

• Textile

Multiple Choice

What was a significant change during the Industrial Revolution in the U.S.?

• Transition from handmade production to machine-based manufacturing

• Increase in agricultural production

• Rise of the internet

• Decline of urban areas

Open Ended

Which geographic feature of the New England region supported the growth of factories?

Multiple Select

According to this image, what impacts did factories have on living conditions? Check ALL that apply

• better housing

• pollution

• disposal of waste

• lack of fresh water

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The ​

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caused slavery to ​

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because it made ​

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cotton much more efficient.

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Cotton Gin

increase

cleaning

telegraph

decrease

growing

Multiple Choice

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Eli Whitney
• Samuel Morse
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison

Multiple Choice

Why did Northern factories depend on cotton grown in the South?

• Northern factories depended on Southern cotton for textile production.
• Factories relied on wool from the North.
• Southern cotton was used for food production.
• Northern factories produced cotton for export.

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the patent law passed by Congress in 1790?

• To protect the rights of inventors

• To promote factory production

• To regulate textile workers

• To limit technological sharing

Multiple Choice

Why is Samuel Slater considered "The Father of the American Industrial Revolution"

• He built the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill

• He produced cotton cloth by transforming raw cotton into finished fabric

• He was a labor rights activist

• He invented the cotton gin

Multiple Choice

What role did Francis Cabot Lowell play in the factory system?

• He built the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill

• He produced cotton cloth by transforming raw cotton into finished fabric

• He was a labor rights activist

• He invented the cotton gin

Open Ended

Who filled unskilled factory positions that required long hours and paid low wages?

Multiple Choice

What factors contributed to the growth of the free enterprise system?

• High taxes and strict regulations

• Low taxes and minimum government regulations

• Increased government control

• Limited competition

Open Ended

Under a free enterprise system, what determines the price of a good?

Multiple Choice

Who benefits in a free enterprise economy?

• Producers and consumers.

• Only wealthy individuals benefit.
• Only the government benefits.
• Only large corporations benefit.

Multiple Select

What is the impact of supply and demand on the price of a good or service? (Select TWO answers)

• High supply, low demand = price decreases

• Low supply, high demand = price increases

• High supply, high demand = price stable

• Low supply, low demand = price increases

Multiple Choice

What is a corporation?

• A corporation is a business with many owners.

• A corporation is a non-profit organization focused on community service.
• A corporation is a small business owned by a single individual.
• A corporation is a type of partnership that shares profits equally among members.

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