Industrial Revolution

What invention provided an affordable way to transport large amounts of goods & people by land?

• locomotive

• steamboat

• stagecoach

• telegraph

As westward expansion increased, what industry was affected by all the railroads being built?

• cottage industry

• textile industry

• fishing industry

• steel industry

the word textile means

• flooring

• cloth

• iron

• communications

How did the factory system encourage urbanization?

• workers started working in their own homes

• workers quit their jobs

• workers moved closer to manufacturing centers

• workers moved to farms in the Midwest

the steel plow revolutionized...

• communication

• agriculture

• land travel

• water travel

the telegraph revolutionized...

• agriculture

• water travel

• land travel

• communication

man that created an entire factory town in Massachusetts increasing textile production

• James Hargreaves

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Eli Whitney

when people produce goods by making them 1 at a time, by hand, in their own homes

• cottage industry

• textile industry

• urbanization

• assembly line

when people move from

rural areas to urban areas

(from small town to big cities)

• urbanization

• ruralization

Who invented the spinning jenny?

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Morse

• John Deere

• James Hargreaves