Chapter 13 - American Industrial Revolution

How did Samuel Slater change the American factory system? (Choose 2)

• He hired whole families and provided them housing.

• He used a “Crompton’s mule” to increase the number of employees.

• He provided transportation to the factories from villages that were located far away.

• He used watermills to power machines

• He used textiles to expand factories into plantations.

Why were factories often located near rivers?

• They needed to use a watermill for power.

• They needed to use the river for dumping waste.

• They needed to use the river for drinking.

• They needed to use a water wheel for washing textiles.

Which phrase best completes the graphic organizer?

• made growing cotton less profitable

• increased productivity of cotton farming

• decreased the need for slaves

• encouraged farmers to move west

Working in fields often picking cotton and very long hours doing difficult work would be a characteristic of slave life in _______.

• plantations

• small farms

• cities

Characteristics of slave life in _______ might be:

- worked growing crops to be sold at local markets and

- may be treated a little better but still considered property and not paid

• small farms

• cities

• plantations

Characteristics of slave life in _______ might be:

- Worked in factories

- may be treated a little better and learned new skills but still considered property and not paid

• small farms

• cities

• plantations

What were economic impacts of the invention of and improvements to the steamboat? (Choose 2)

• Shipping costs increased.

• Shipping costs decreased.

• Transportation times increased.

• Rivers became less important for trade.

• Cities developed along major rivers and the Great Lakes.

Which phrase best completes the diagram?

• end of plantation lifestyle

• increase in use of slave labor

• decrease in cotton production

• industrialization of the South

Who improved the steamboat by making it faster and more efficient?

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

In the South, industrialization led to _______.

• expansion of the plantation system

• urbanization and development of industry

• development of resources, industries, and more settlement