Industrial Revolution

Until the 1800s, how did most families get the items they needed for daily life?

• They made tools, clothing, food and materials by hand.

• They bought them from factories.

• They bought them on the internet from Amazon.

• They bought them from stores.

The _________________ is the name for the change from goods being made by hand at home to making them by machines in factories.

• French revolution

• Machine Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Technological Revolution

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• George Washington

• Eli Whitney

How did the cotton gin change cotton production in the south?

• Cotton was made faster.

• Cotton became the most important cash crop in the U.S.

• It could clean more cotton in minutes, then a group of workers could in a day.

• All of the above.

_____________________ are pieces made to fit many machines or tools.

• Interchangeable parts

• Fixed parts

• Limited parts

• New parts

____________________ is a machine with sharp blades used to cut grain.

• The sower

• The reaper

• The cotton gin

• The sewing machine

Why did river travel improve during the 1800s?

• The invention of the steam engine.

• The invention of stagecoaches.

• The invention of the reaper.

• Rivers were getting faster every year.

What was the nickname given to the steam locomotive?

• Steamy

• Iron Wagon

• Iron Horse

• Steam Horse

What did Samuel Morse invent?

• The steam engine

• The steamboat

• The telegraph machine

• The telephone

___________________ are people who live in a country in which they were not born.

• Pioneers

• Immigrants

• Native Americans

• Merchants