Industrial Revolution

Who started the Factory system in the United States?

• Francis Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• James Monroe

• Henry Clay

What does a census count? 

• Immigrants 
• Population 
• Jobs
• Growth of cities 

What piece of foreign policy informed European powers that they could no longer interfere in western affairs?

• Convention of 1818
• Rush Bagot 
• Adams Onis Treaty 
• Monroe Doctrine 

Proposed the Missouri Compromise

• Francis Lowell

• John Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• James Monroe

Invented the Cotton Gin

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

CLICK ALL THAT APPLY. ALL the following describe life for girls at the Lowell Mill.

• Work long hours

• Very dangerous

• Get raises fairly easily

• Very stressful and demanding job

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, 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 processed 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