Industrial Revolution and Urbanization

What is the movement of people from farms to cities?

• Utilitarianism
• Urbanization
• Proletariat
• Enclosure Movement

What are identical components that can be used in place of each other?

• Interchangeable parts
• Factories
• Dynamos
• Assembly Lines

The cottage industry system involved manufacturing...

• of steam engines.
• of hand-made luxury goods.
• in the home. 
• in small factories.

What product was first made using machines in factories?

• Steel
• textiles
• locomotives
• flying shuttles

What was a positive consequence of the construction of the Erie Canal?

• Western farmers could send their goods down the Mississippi River to the port of New Orleans.
• Western farmers could send their goods from the Great Lakes through the canal to the Hudson River and New York City
• Western farmers could trade their crops for furs from the American Indians in the Great Lakes region
• Western farmers could move their families west of the Rocky Mountains

What was one consequences of the type of taxes shown in the diagram?

• British manufacturers sold more goods in America
• American Indians preferred to purchase British goods
• Southern plantation owners sold more raw cotton in Britain than in the United States
• Northern factory owners received some protection from British competition

During the nineteenth century, in which region of the United States did the plantation system play a key role in the economy and way of life? 

• New England
• Middle Atlantic states
• the South
• the West

What impact did the increasing demand for raw cotton by textile mills in the early nineteenth century have on the South? 

• Southern plantation owners built their own textile mills
• The number of slaves working on Southern cotton plantations increased
• Southern plantation owners began replacing their slaves with more efficient free laborers
• Farmers who worked their own land without slaves took an increasing share of production

In the mid-nineteenth century, the number of American factories increased. What shift in the population occurred as a result?

• African Americans in the North moved South
• People moved from rural areas to cities to find jobs
• Urban residents left cities to find jobs in agriculture
• Large numbers of settlers in the West moved back East

Which inland waterway provided Western American farmers and merchants with a means for shipping their goods to the Gulf of Mexico?

• Mississippi River 
• Erie Canal
• Hudson River
• Ohio River