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

What was the purpose of labor unions?

• Negotiate as a group for bigger factories
• Negotiate as a group for better working conditions
• Negotiate as a group for a political revolution
• Negotiate as a group for a social revolution

Where did the industrial revolution start?

• Russia
• Japan
• Britain
• America

Where were most factories built?

• in the mountains
• in the desert
• along rivers

The term laissez-faire roughly translates to mean

• leave alone

• resist

• freedom

• control

The process of an area growing larger, with an increase in population, production of goods and services, and availability of a variety of options to fulfill one's wants and needs is called

• industrialization

• urbanization

• materialism

• commercialism

During the Industrial Revolution, a new social and economic class that developed was the

• serfs

• rich, or the upper class

• expanded lower class

• middle class