The Industrial Revolution in America

What was the extreme change in the U.S. early in the 1800's shifting from handmade goods to factory made goods taking the U.S. from mostly farming to a society based on industry & manufacturing?

• Mass Production
• Industrial Revolution
• Urbanization
• Factory System

Where did the industrial revolution start?

• Russia
• Japan
• Britain
• America

How did the move from farm to factories change peoples lives?

• land owners had to share their land

• urbanization was a myth

• cities grew as people moved to work in factories

• the cottage industry thrived

When you use machines to make goods it is called:

• Capitalism

• Factors of Production

• Collective Bargaining

• Industrialization

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

What industry was revolutionized by inventions like the spinning jenny, the power loom and the steam engine?

• Textile Industry

• Coal Industry

• Steel Industry

• Transportation Industry

Using interchangeable parts for creating goods advanced the growth of industry because it-

• allowed the continuation of the domestic system
• permitted large quantities of goods to be mass produced at lower cost
• made it possible for unskilled workers to operate machines
• brought an end to the common abuse of factory workers

Why did the British call inventor Samuel Slater "Slater the Traitor?"

• He revealed positions of the British Military
• He gave America British military technlogy
• He memorized the design of British factory technology and brought it to the US
• He stole Whitney's idea of interchangeable parts

Samuel Slater strategy to hire large families and divide work into simple tasks

• Lowell System

• Samuel Slater System

• Rhode Island System

• Virginia System

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