"The Making of the Industrial Age"

What does the word industry mean?

• the making of inventions
• a group of workers
• the making of products by machines in factories
• the building of big cities

What is the Industrial Age?

• the age of industry
• a 150-year period in which new inventions changed how people made products
• the time period when people moved to The New World

What helped industries to grow quickly during the industrial era?

• The government made a law that required growth.
• A lot of people moved to the cities.
• New technology allowed different industries to explode.

What new technology supplied power for many machines during the Industrial Revolution?

• Many machines built during the Industrial Revolution were powered by the steam engine.
• Many machines built during the Industrial Revolution were powered by electricity.
• Many machines built during the Industrial Revolution were powered by solar power.

What resources were needed to supply steam engines?

• Steam engines ran on gasoline and needed wood or coal fuel to heat it.
• Steam engines ran on water and needed wood or coal fuel to heat it.
• Steam engines ran on water and needed nuclear power to heat it.

What tool was used to mine coal before the Industrial Revolution?

• They dug underground tunnels with bulldozers.
• They dug underground tunnels with by blasting with dynamite.
• They dug underground tunnels with pickaxes.

Why was steel used in only a few products before the 1850s?

• Steel hadn't been invented yet.
• Steel was expensive.
• Steel was unavailable.

How did cheaper steel affect the manufacture of machines?

• When steel was more affordable, more machines could be manufactured.
• When steel was more affordable, less machines were manufactured.