8.37 American Industrial Revolution

Which of the following does NOT describe the Industrial Revolution?

• manufacturing moves from individual production to mass production

• factories consolidate multiple stages of production of a good

• slaves are used as labor in dangerous textile factories

• manufacturing relies on new power sources like water and steam

• demand for cotton increases slavery on plantations across the Deep South

What invention most directly led to an increased reliance on slavery in the early to mid 1800s?

• cotton gin

• steam engine

• railroads

• interchangeable parts

Who invented interchangeable parts?

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• John Deere

What are interchangeable parts?

• having multiple tools with the same purpose

• individually crafting a good from start to finish by hand to ensure quality

• creating backups or fail-safe mechanisms to ensure an item won't stop working

• precisely creating identical parts of a good that work on all items produced

Which immigrant from England brought the secrets of British textile manufacturing with him?

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• John Deere

Which of the following was NOT an innovation of Samuel Slater?

• began using water power to operate factory machinery

• combined multiple steps of production in a factory rather than workers' homes

• buying cotton directly from plantation owners rather than middle men merchants

• dividing the steps of production among multiple workers to promote specialization

Who created the world's first factory that could take raw cotton and transform it into cloth in a single building?

• Samuel Slater

• John Deere

• Eli Whitney

• Francis Cabot Lowell

Whom did Francis Cabot Lowell first employ in his textile mills?

• children

• poor farmers

• unmarried women

• immigrants

Which of the following helped create the success of the American textile industry? (Select 3)

• invention of the cotton gin

• land opened to settlement by the Indian Removal Act

• a surplus of slaves in the Upper South

• British investment in American factories

What was the original purpose of trade unions?

• to promote safety of factory workers

• to increase wages of factory workers

• to provide benefits for workers in factories

• to protest the use of unskilled labor in factories