Industrial Revolution

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

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• George Washington
• Eli Whitney

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

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

Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph. Which area of life was improved by this invention?

• communication
• farming
• industry
• transportation

Who Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

• Eli Whitney
• Robert Fulton
• Slater
• Lowell

Who invented the telegraph?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

What invention moved factories away from rivers?

• the train

• the spinning jenny

• the canal

• the steam engine

Another word for farming

• Agriculture

• Manufacturing

• Technology

• Invention