Industrial Revolution Review

This invention was extremely important in the South, increasing the need for slave labor

• Cotton Gin

• Steamboat

• Steam engine

• Factory system

The Lowell Factories resulted in all of the following EXCEPT

• Girls moving to factories to work on textiles

• Decreased production of clothing in homes

• Increase the amount of British goods purchased

• Increased production of clothing in factories

This invention allowed for factories to move away from rivers

• Steamboat

• Interchangeable parts

• Steam engine

• Railroad

The Second Great Awakening was characterized by

• Increased production in factories

• Decreased amounts of faith amongst Americans

• A desire to purchase goods for the mother country

• Religious revivals at camp style meetings

Increased communication and transportation allowed for goods to

• Be produced less quickly and in larger quantities

• Be produced more quickly and in larger quantities

• Be produced more quickly and in smaller quantities

• Be produced less quickly and in smaller quantities

Factory conditions were hazardous for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• Cruel treatments of workers

• Unsafe machines

• Health hazards

• Child labor laws were in place

The cotton gin and interchangeable parts were invented by

• Frederick Douglass

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Morse

• Robert Fulton

Which of the following is a factor that contributed to urbanization in the US?

• A large labor pool of immigrants

• A decrease in the efficiency of machines

• A focus in the US on agricultural production

• Reliance to the domestic system (working in homes)

The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest is

• Civil disobedience

• Transcendentalism

• Industrialism

• Abolition

The use of chains, stalls, and cages were reasons Dorothea Dix wanted to reform

• Women's rights

• Temperance

• Education

• Insane Asylum/Prison