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

The factory system made life easier because:

• It streamlined the process of creating goods

• It helped business owners speak directly with consumers

• It helped transport goods faster and easier

• It greatly reduced the number of hours individuals spent on farm labor

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the market revolution changed the United States. Which statement did NOT have an impact on the market revolution?

• There were a series of innovations in transportation and communication

• s a result of the war, Americans became less reliant on Europe for products and developed more of their own manufacturing

• The Embargo Act of 1807 forced the United States to manufacture their own goods because they would not be able to trade for foreign goods

• Americans began to “simplify” their lives rather than become obsessed with the accumulation of wealth

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

_______________ 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

What did Samuel Morse invent?

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

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