Industrial Revolution

How did railroads impact the prices of goods & services?

• Made goods and services more expensive & harder to ship
• Made goods and services cheaper & easier to ship
• Gave people safer transportation
• Opened new land for exploring and settlements

Railroads moved ___-_________ to factories.

• finished prodcuts
• raw materials

Women were paid ____ than men for doing the same work.

• more
• less

These workers gather together to try and argue for better working conditions & higher pay. 

• abolitionists
• temperance movement
• organized labor

How did the Industrial Revolution change the way we create goods?

• we made fewer products
• we made better quality products
• we made products from home
• mass production & cheaper goods

Because children worked in factories 

• they had less education
• they became sick an injured
• they worked for less pay
• all of the above

What was the purpose of labor unions?

• Negotiate as a group for bigger factories
• Negotiate as a group for better working conditions
• Negotiate as a group for a political revolution
• Negotiate as a group for a social revolution

The cotton gin was invented by _____, which helped separate seeds from cotton fiber.

• Eli Whitney
• Henry Ford
• Robert Fulton
• Edmund Cartwright

Why did people move to cities during the Industrial Revolution?

• People were looking for work.
• People were looking for farms.
• People wanted to buy a house.
• People wanted to sell their crops.

This picture shows which problem of the factory system?

• unsafe working conditions
• urbanization
• unfair wages for women
• child labor