American Industrial Revolution (A)

Who was the father of the American Industrial Revolution?

• Samuel Slater

• Moses Brown

• Andrew Carnegie

An arrangement of machines and workers in which work passes from one to another until the finished product is made.

• Assembly Line

• Raw Materials

• Interchangeable Parts

Quickly producing large amounts of finished product using machines.

• mass production

• assembly line

• grist mill

A work stoppage by employees (workers) to pressure owners to give in to workers' demands.

• layoff

• strike

• bargaining

An organization of workers joined together to increase wages, to shorten working hours, and/or to improve working conditions.

• labor union

• owners/operators

• management

Material that can be changed into useful finished products using machines.

• clothing

• furniture

• raw material

_______ is the country where the Industrial Revolution began.

• Russia

• England

• United States

_____ were the source of linen fiber used in the textile industry.

• Flax Plants

• Cotton Plants

• Sheep

Interchangeable parts were developed by _____ _____.

• Eli Whitney

• Thomas Edison

• Robert Fulton

Once mechanized farm equipment (machines) was available, one farm family could grow enough food to feed _____.

• many families

• a few families

• just one family