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

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

• communication
• farming
• industry
• transportation

What is the movement from rural to urban areas called?

• Moving
• colonization
• inflation
• urbanization

Mass production means:

• Products being made with more superior in quality

• goods being made in large quantities

• laborers received higher wages

• industries moved to rural areas

Rural means

• country

• city

What are the run-down "apartments" that many people in large cities lived in called?

• tenant farms

• tenements

• apartments

• public housing

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages
• Safe working conditions
• Dangerous working conditions
• Widespread pollution

How did railroads impact the prices of goods & services?

• Made them more expensive & harder to ship
• made them cheaper & easier to ship
• Gave people a way of transportation

How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?

• Made the crime rate decrease
• Led to an increase in farm workers
• Make the cities cleaner and safer
• Led to an increase in population in the cities