Americans' lives changed rapidly in the North as a result of

• baking

• shipping

• agriculture

• industrialization

The system of ____ was developed to represent letter of the alphabet when sending telegraph messages.

• textile

• railroad

• Morse code

• Braille

Who was the first American woman to hold high rank in the labor movement?

• Sarah Grimke

• Sarah Bagley

• Dorothea Dix

• Emily Dickenson

What was the term for the period of rapid growth with machines and manufacturing?

• Industrial Revolution

• Industrial strength

• Agriculture

• Yankee ingenuity

Peter Cooper built the first ____ in the U.S.

• steamboat

• railroad

• canal

• train

What is the term for when Northern workers refused to work in order to force factory owners to meet their demands for better pay and working conditions?

• textile

• strike

• refusal

• lazy

What industry was the first to use machines for manufacturing their product?

• shipping

• agriculture

• textile

• lumber

The first machines of the Industrial Revolution were powered by

• electricity

• water

• animals

• coal

The earliest important evidence of the Industrial Revolution in America was found in...

• the way cotton was processed

• the production of tobacco products

• the manufacture of cloth and thread

• the construction of the first steam railroads

The Transportation Revolution of the 1850's had all of the following effects EXCEPT:

• it reduced the time and cos of shipping goods

• helped to created a boost in business and agriculture

• made travel upstream on rivers faster and easier

• limited the federal government's ability to control trade among states