Industrial Revolution & Abolition Review

Why were railroads so important during this time?

• they moved goods more quickly and less expensively over greater distances
• they were fun to ride on to go visit family in other states
• people could ride on railroads to get to their jobs in another city

Who invented cotton gin and interchangeable parts?

• John Deere
• Eli Whitney
• Samuel Slater
• Elias Howe

Who invented the telegraph?

• Elias Howe
• Eli Whitney
• Samuel Slater
• Samuel Morse

The change from individual production of goods to machine production is called

• urbanization
• industrialization
• agrarian societs
• nullification

The Temperance Movement sought to eliminate -

• Juvenile Prisons
• Consumption of alcohol
• Child labor

In the 1840s, Seneca Falls, New York, became the scene of an important convention for -

• women's rights
• labor union organization
• temperance reform
• prison reforms

The Second Great Awakening centered around - 

• Politics
• Economics
• Religion 

What was the abolition movement?

• Movement to abolish sales and consumption (drinking) of alcoholic beverages.
• Reform movement to end slavery.
• Reform Movement to improve education.
• Immigrants who came to America to build the railroad.

Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd  Garrison, and Sojourner Truth were some of the leaders of which movement?

• Abolitionist Movement
• Temperance Movement
• Education Movement

What name is given to the era from 1750-1900 that saw a huge increase in innovation, mechanization, and increased factory production?

• Neolithic revolution
• Capitalist revolution
• Market revolution
• Industrial revolution