Industrial Revolution

When an entire economy is changed to rely on manufacturing instead of homemade goods....

• urbanization

• industrialization

• manufacturing

• civilization

Industrialization made everything in America...

• easier

• cheaper

• faster

• all are correct

The cotton gin...

• increased the need for slaves and their profitability

• increased the cost of harvesting cotton as well as the speed

• increased the consumers for cotton

• increased the cost for shipping the cotton

The steamboat....

• increased the cost for traveling on the canals

• decreased the travel time and increased profits through tourism

• decreased the need for the transcontinental railroad

• increased the profitability of shipping goods around the world

What is being described?

No big job is too difficult when you break it into smaller parts.

• steamboat travels

• assembly line

• cotton gin

• steel plow

Which of the following allowed for mass production? (ability to manufacture a lot of the same item)

• assembly line

• mechanical reaper

• cotton gin

• transcontinental railroad

Who was fighting in the War of 1812?

• Americans and British

• Americans and Native Americans

• French and British

• French and Native Americans

What did the British do to punish the United States and try to influence us to support them?

• killed our sailors

• impressed our sailors into battle

• taxed our people on shipments

• refused to buy American manufactured goods

What did the British do that drove America into the Industrial Revolution?

• impressed our sailors into battle

• refused to ship manufactured goods to the United States

• allied with France and defeated our army

• taxed our citizens at a high rate for goods

EVERY invention did what for the economy?

• allowed for more efficient production of goods

• allowed for trade with Britain

• upset ours allies sending us into war

• allowed for trade with France