chapter 8: L 1

The term used to describe money gained after a sale.

• Cost price

• Selling price

• Profit

• Loss

This invention increased the need for slave labor in the South.

• Cotton Gin

• Reaper

• Steamboat

• Steam Locamotive

Who invented the Mechanical Reaper?

• Cyrus McCormick
• Eli Whitney
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell

____________________________________ was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" who created the first water-powered textile mill in the United States.

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

How were morse code messages sent?

• Telegraph

• Horse

• Telephone

• airplane

The _______ _______ introduced large factories that could make goods more quickly and cheaply than before. This led to a change in the culture of the United States.

• Samuel Slater

• Lowell System

• Transportation Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production

• Transportation Revolution

• American Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Technology Revolution

Mass production is___________

• Producing products in Massachusetts
• Producing a few items at a time until they are sold. 
• Producing a lot of an item at the same time. 
• Producing custom made items. 

Where were most factories built?

• in the mountains

• in the desert

• along rivers

• On farm land

device that could send information over wires across great distances

• telegraph

• telephone

• technology

• morse code