Industrial Revolution

Invented the Cotton Gin

• Eli Whitney 
• Henry Clay 
• Francis Lowell
• John Deere 

Led to a canal boom in the United States thanks to the success New York had

• Central Canal 
• Erie Canal
• Wabash Canal 
• Ohio Canal 

Until the 1800s, how did most families get the items they needed for daily life?

• They made tools, clothing, materials, and food by hand.
• They bought them from factories.
• They bought them on the Internet.
• They bought them from stores.

The _______________ is the name for the change from goods being made by hand at home to making them by machine in factories.

• French Revolution
• Machine Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Technological Revolution

How did the cotton gin change cotton production in the South?

• Cotton was made faster.
• Cotton became the most important cash crop in the United States.
• It could clean more cotton in minutes than a whole group of workers could clean in a day.
• all of the above

_______________ are pieces made to fit many machines or tools.

• Interchangeable parts
• Fixed parts
• Limited parts
• New parts

What did Samuel Morse invent?

• the steam engine
• the steamboat
• the telegraph machine
• the telephone

_______________ are people who live in a country in which they were not born.

• Pioneers
• Immigrants
• Merchants
• Native Americans

The use of the ____________________ made it possible to make goods with many pieces faster and more cheaply.

• stage coach
• reaper
• interchangeable parts
• cotton gin

The invention of the ____________________ increased the production of cloth.

• cotton gin
• reaper
• interchangeable parts
• stage coach