Industrial Revolution Week 2

Which of the following WAS NOT TRUE of the Lowell Textile Factory in the early 1800's?

• Many young women left farms to work for wages in the factory
• Lowell used the idea of employing young women in the factory
• Lowell girls were provided with free room and board (meals)
• Girls made between $2-$4 a week

Which of the following WERE the reasons why New England was the perfect place to build textile factories?

• poor soil, hot summers, and cotton
• rivers/streams, cotton, slave labor
• ports, cotton, and slave labor
• poor soil, many ports, and many rivers and streams

During the Industrial Revolution, a new social and economic class that developed was the

• serfs

• rich, or the upper class

• expanded lower class

• middle class

What does a census count? 

• Immigrants 
• Population 
• Jobs
• Growth of cities 

the process of moving from an agricultural society, in which most goods are handmade, to a society that thrives on machine-manufactured goods

• textile
• economy
• industrialization
• technology

the use of human knowledge to create tools and machines that allow us to navigate and control the environment; does NOT have to be electronic

• industrialization
• technology
• economy
• textile

Women were paid ____ than men for doing the same work.

• more
• less

How did the Industrial Revolution change the way we create goods?

• we made fewer products
• we made better quality products
• we made products from home
• mass production & cheaper goods

Because children worked in factories 

• they had less education
• they became sick an injured
• they worked for less pay
• all of the above

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages
• Safe working conditions
• Dangerous working conditions
• Widespread pollution