Industrial Revolution

How did railroads impact the prices of goods & services?

• Made goods and services more expensive & harder to ship
• Made goods and services cheaper & easier to ship
• Gave people safer transportation
• Opened new land for exploring and settlements

Women were paid ____ than men for doing the same work.

• more
• less

How did the Industrial Revolution change the way we create goods?

• we made fewer products
• we made better quality products
• we made products from home
• mass production & cheaper goods

The cotton gin was invented by _____, which helped separate seeds from cotton fiber.

• Eli Whitney
• Henry Ford
• Robert Fulton
• Edmund Cartwright

Why did people move to cities during the Industrial Revolution?

• People were looking for work.
• People were looking for farms.
• People wanted to buy a house.
• People wanted to sell their crops.

Using interchangeable parts for creating goods advanced the growth of industry because it-

• allowed the continuation of the domestic system
• permitted large quantities of goods to be mass produced at lower cost
• made it possible for unskilled workers to operate machines
• brought an end to the common abuse of factory workers

Steamboats and Railroads did all the following EXCEPT 

• Better relations with natives 
• Cities grew 
• Cut shipping costs 
• Made goods cheaper 

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

What did Samuel Morse invent?

• the steam engine
• the steamboat
• the telegraph machine
• the telephone