Industrial Revolution

Until the 1800s, 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

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

_______________ is a machine with sharp blades used to cut grain.

• The sower
• The reaper
• The cotton gin
• The sewing machine

Why did river travel improve during the 1800s?

• because of the invention of the steam engine
• because of the invention of stagecoaches
• because of the invention of the reaper
• because rivers were getting faster every year

_______________ are people who live in a country in which they were not born.

• Pioneers
• Immigrants
• Merchants
• Native Americans

Look at the time line. What would be a good title for it?

• How the Cotton Gin Is Made
• How the Erie Canal Was Built
• Inventions from the Industrial Revolution
• Inventors of the Industrial Revolution

The invention of the ____________________ increased the production of cloth.

• cotton gin
• reaper
• interchangeable parts
• stage coach

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• Massachusetts

• France

• England

• Ireland