Industrial Revolution

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.

Where did the industrial revolution start?

• Russia
• Japan
• Britain
• America

Which of these did not improve the nation's system of trade in the 1800's?

• construction of canals
• use of steamboats
• completion of the railroad
• construction of toll roads

the process of moving from an agricultural society, in which most goods are handmade, to a society that thrives on machine-manufactured goods

• textile
• economy
• industrialization
• technology

What was the importance of the Erie Canal?

• more water for the settlers to use for their crops
• it connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie making transportation of goods easier
• it connected the Mississippi River and the Hudson River and made transportation of goods easier

Where were most factories built?

• in the mountains
• in the desert
• along rivers

Who invented the steamboat?

• Robert Fulton
• Samuel Morse
• Cyrus McCormick
• Francis Cabot Lowell

What parallel was the northern boundary for the Convention of 1818?

• 48
• 57
• 42
• 49

Who led operations to stop Seminole raids in Florida and Georgia?

• Horatio Gates
• George Washington
• Andrew Jackson
• George Rogers Clark