Industrial Revolution Review

What is the manufacturing method that produced large quantities of uniform pieces that could replace any other identical pieces?

• interchangeable parts

• Bessemer steel process

• cotton gin

• free enterprise system

What is the image representing?

• Missouri Compromise

• Growth of slavery in the South

• The creation of the Erie Canal

• Era of Good Feelings

The invention of the cotton gin reduced the need for slave labor in the South.

• True

• False

Where were cities likely to develop during the early 1800s?

• Next to prominent Native American groups

• Along waterways

• Within rural communities

• At the base of a mountain

Which invention is the mechanical reaper?

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What is a free enterprise economic system?

• People can buy, sell, and produce whatever they want

• People are free to farm whatever land they own

• People are allowed steal the innovations of patented products as their own

How did the invention of the steamboat impact the United States?

• The steamboat allowed enslaved people to escape to the North undetected.

• The steamboat encouraged the growth of new cities.

• The steamboat reduced the need for a Transcontinental Railroad.

• The steamboat encouraged increased trade with foreign countries.

Faster communication systems improved the trade of goods across long distances.

• True

• False

Eli Whitney and Samuel Slater were important to the spread of industrialization into the US because they...

• increased steel production

• devised new forms of transportation

• increased steel production

• created new methods of production

What sparked the start of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

• The War of 1812

• The Missouri Compromise

• George Washington's Farewell Address

• The Embargo Act