Industrial Revolution (2023)

The steamboat improved transportation by carrying people and goods faster.

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• Robert Fulton

• Matthew Mercer

The steel plow made soil easier to prepare for planting.

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• Robert Fulton

• John Deere

• Eli Whitney

Machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main source of work.

• steamboat

• interchangeable parts

• John Deere

• Industrial Revolution

The telegraph allowed a person to communicate almost instantly with other people in distant places.

• Eli Whitney

• John Telegraph

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• Robert Fulton

He invented the cotton gin/concept of interchangeable parts for manufacturing.

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• John Deere

parts that are exactly alike

• telegraph

• steamboat

• interchangeable parts

• John Deere

Which of the following BEST describes the impact that interchangeable parts had on manufacturing?

• The dominance of American manufacturing over European countries.

• The beginning of the Industrial Revolution because of increased demand.

• The rapid expansion of railroads and faster transportation.

• The mass production of goods.

How did the cotton gin change the South?

• It made the South less dependent on slave labor.

• It increased the costs of growing cotton.

• It raised the price that Southerners could get for their cotton.

• It encouraged Southerners to grow more cotton.

What idea of Eli Whitney's transformed manufacturing by making each copy of a manufactured item exactly alike?

• telephone

• spinning machines

• tariff

• interchangeable parts

Where were most of the nation's early factories built?

• Northwest Territory

• South

• Northeast/New England

• Midwest