Industrial Revolution Review

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

• They made tools, clothing, materials, and food by hand.
• They bought them from factories.
• They bought them on the Internet.
• They bought them from stores.

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

• French Revolution
• Machine Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Technological Revolution

Which of the following gives inventors sole legal rights to their invention and its profits?

• patent
• technology
• contract

America wanted to end slavery in the first 20 years of its existence. What invention caused slavery to stay longer?

• Invention of the Cotton Gin
• The slaves wanted to stay slaves
• The invention of the steam boat
• THe invention of moveable parts

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 United States.
• It could clean more cotton in minutes than a whole group of workers could clean 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 down grain.

• The sower
• The reaper
• The cotton gin
• The sewing machine

Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph. Which area of life was improved by this invention?

• communication
• farming
• industry
• transportation

The industrial revolution began in what industry

• Computer
• Textile
• Farming
• Shipping