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

These workers gather together to try and argue for better working conditions & higher pay. 

• abolitionists
• temperance movement
• organized labor

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

Because children worked in factories 

• they had less education
• they became sick an injured
• they worked for less pay
• all of the above

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.

This picture shows which problem of the factory system?

• unsafe working conditions
• urbanization
• unfair wages for women
• child labor

Where did the industrial revolution start?

• Russia
• Japan
• Britain
• America

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

In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• The United States
• England
• France
• Germany