Industrial Revolution

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

What did Samuel Morse invent?

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

_______________ are people who live in a country in which they were not born.

• Pioneers
• Immigrants
• Merchants
• Native Americans

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

• communication
• farming
• industry
• transportation

The invention of the ____________________ increased the production of cloth.

• cotton gin
• reaper
• interchangeable parts
• stage coach

A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.

• Cartel
• Corporation
• Factory
• Urbanization

Another word for farming

• Agriculture

• Manufacturing

• Technology

• Invention