Industrial Revolution

Why was the assembly line an important invention?

• Allowed people to communicate long distance.

• Helped make cars that could drive faster.

• Made work in factories more efficient.

• It was not an important invention.

Which word means a big change in the way things work or people's ideas and attitudes?

• Revolution

• Innovation

• Invention

• Efficient

What was the name of the first national highway in the United States?

• State Road 13

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Cumberland Road

• Highway 1

Who invented the incandescent light bulb?

• Samuel Morse

• Abraham Lincoln

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

Which of the following did Henry Ford invent?

• Assembly line

• Vulcanized rubber

• Cotton gin

• Modern automobile

What is a strike?

• 3 strikes and you're out.

• When someone gets fired from a job.

• A big change in the way things work or people's ideas and attitudes.

• A protest where workers agree not to work so they can make demands from their employer.

What is the farming of crops to sell, trade, or make into other products?

• Engineering

• Agriculture

• Gardening

• Innovation

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Eli Whitney

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Newcomen

• Henry Ford

What did the Wright brothers invent?

• The modern automobile

• Popcorn

• The cotton gin

• The airplane

What are installments?

• Appliances that need to be installed professionally.

• Legal documents from a government that show someone has the rights over an idea.

• Individual payments made over time that go toward paying off a larger amount of money.

• The money that a whole society has, how its businesses are doing, and how its people are doing financially.