Industrial Revolution 1790

Which technological development led to an increased demand for slaves in the United States during the early- to mid-1800s? 

• The Steel Plow

• The Cotton Gin

• the Mechanical Reaper

• The Combine Harvester

How did the Cotton Gin affect the price of cotton clothing?

• The price of clothing stayed about the same

• The price of clothing was cheaper

• The price of clothing was higher

What effect on slavery did the cotton gin have?

• Increased the need for slaves

• decreased the need for slaves

• did not change the need for slaves

What did Eli Whitney invent?

• Cotton Gin

• textile (cloth) factories

• Morse Code

• steam engine

How did the cotton gin change the industry?

• it made it harder to produce and sell cotton

• it made it easier to produce and sell a lot of cotton

• it decreased the need for slaves

• it helped get rid of bad cotton

This man stole plans from Great Britain to America about the textile (cloth) mills.

• Samuel Slater

• Cyrus McCormick

• Eli Whitney

• Frances Cabot Lowell

The telegraph which used a special code to communicate across long distances was invented by

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel Morse

• Eli Whitney

• Francis Cabot Lowell

__________________ built textile (cloth) factories where many young women went to work at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

• Slater

• Morse

• Whitney

• Lowell

Who employed young women?

• Richard Arkwright 

• Thomas Jefferson

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

This was a period where machines started being used. It began in Great Britain and moved to the US in 1790.

• Industrial Revolution

• American Revolution

• Machine Revolution

• Cotton Revolution