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

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

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

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.

Look at the time line. What would be a good title for it?

• How the Cotton Gin Is Made
• How the Erie Canal Was Built
• Inventions from the Industrial Revolution
• Inventors of the Industrial Revolution

What product was first made using machines in factories?

• Steel
• textiles
• locomotives
• flying shuttles