North and South

The __________________ was a period of major industrialization that took place during the late 1700s and early 1800s. ... This time period saw the mechanization of agriculture and textile manufacturing and a revolution in power, including steam ships and railroads, that effected social, cultural and economic conditions.

• Reconstruction

• Industrial Revolution

• Transportation Revolution

• Era of Good Feelings

The first machines of the Industrial Revolution were powered by ________________?

• electricity
• water
• animals
• coal

Which of the following was a development of the Transportation Revolution of the mid-1800s?

• automobiles
• wind-powered boats
• diesel freighters
• steam-powered trains

Eli Whitney's idea of interchangeable parts resulted in....

• the dominance of American manufacturing

• the beginning of the Industrial Revolution

• a rapid expansion of railroads

• the mass production of goods

The idea Eli  Whitney had to assemble guns fast and easy

• Industrial Parts
• Indivisible Parts
• Slick and Lock device
• Interchangeable parts

What was Slater's system?

• Hired young, unmarried women from local farms
• Hired immigrants and rural area people for cheap
• Hired entire families
• Hired unattached young men ready for adventure

Wood was replaced by WHAT to power the faster trains being developed?

• steam
• iron
• coal
• fast-flowing rivers

Textiles are....?

• tile used in factories for efficiency
• Part of Samuel Morse's device for sending telegraphs
• Items made out cloth or fabric
• What Samuel Slater used to write down the plans for the machinery in Great Britain

Most mills were located in WHAT part of the U.S.?

• Southeast
• West
• Desert
• Northeast

Young unmarried women wanted to work in the Lowell mills because they could....

• Get clothes at cost price
• have flex-time work schedule
• could make own money, and earn more than elsewhere, help family with income
• Enjoy the cleanest, safest, most pleasant  working conditions around.