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

_______________ are pieces made to fit many machines or tools.

• Interchangeable parts
• Fixed parts
• Limited parts
• New parts

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

What was a nickname given to the steam locomotive?

• Steamy
• Iron Wagon
• Iron Horse
• Steam Horse

What did Samuel Morse invent?

• the steam engine
• the steamboat
• the telegraph machine
• the telephone

Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph. Which area of life was improved by this invention?

• communication
• farming
• industry
• transportation

The use of the ____________________ made it possible to make goods with many pieces faster and more cheaply.

• stage coach
• reaper
• interchangeable parts
• cotton gin