Industrial Revolution quiz

What are identical components that can be used in place of each other?

• Interchangeable parts
• Factories
• Dynamos
• Assembly Lines

Mass production led to:

• Products being more superior in quality
• goods became less expensive
• laborers received higher wages
• industries moved to rural areas

What is the movement from rural to urban areas called?

• Moving
• colonization
• inflation
• urbanization

The _________ was invited by Samuel Morse in order to help the railroads. 

• Telegraph
• Telephone
• Telescope
• Television

This machine separated the seed from cotton fibers.

• Spinning Mule
• Spinning Jenny
• Steam Engine
• Cotton Gin

Why did "cottage industry" come to an end?

• Too many people moved to the city.
• It was replaced by the factory system.
• The need for textiles decreased.
• Women who worked in cottage industries went on strike.

How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?

• Made the crime rate decrease
• Led to an increase in farm workers
• Make the cities cleaner and safer
• Led to an increase in population in the cities

Many Irish-Catholic and Chinese immigrants helped improve the infrastructure of the United States by building what?

• The Erie Canal
• The interstate highway system
• The transcontinental railroad
• The White House

Which invention connected the Southern plantations to the Northern industries and to the Western territories?

• Cotton Gin
• Reaper
• Steamboat
• Steam Locomotive

These environmental modifications were made in order to construct? 

• permanent housing for immigrants in urban areas.
• canals that linked the Midwest to the Northeast.
• a transcontinental railroad.
•  harbor on the Mississippi River.