Industrialization, Immigration & Urbanization

During the ______, many countries shifted from agricultural economies to manufacturing economies

• Westward Expansion

• War of 1812

• Industrial Revolution

• Turn of the Century

Which industry was the first to use machines to produce products?

• Transportation

• Textiles

• Farming

• Oil

The cotton gin, which sped up the process of cleaning cotton, was invented by ______.

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Robert Fulton

• Francis Cabot Lowell

The ______ Canal served as an important form of transportation during the mid-1800s.

• Superior

• Huron

• Ontario

• Erie

______ developed a steamboat that could travel upriver and downriver.

• Samuel Morse

• John Deere

• Robert Fulton

• Cyrus McCormick

Invented by Samuel Morse, this invention made communication much easier and quicker.

• Telegraph

• Steam engine

• Telephone

• Steel plow

Inventions such as the steel plow and mechanical reaper helped the ______ industry become more productive.

• Communication

• Textiles

• Transportation

• Farming

In the mid-1800s, most immigrants arriving in America came from Germany and ______.

• Spain

• Ireland

• Scotland

• France

Urbanization is the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas.

• True

• False

During the 1800s, the textile industry in New England boomed. Which of the following were results of that boom?

• Expanded labor force

• Construction projects

• Growing banking industry

• All of the above