Industrial Revolution

What was one effect of the cotton gin in the United States?

• Improved fertility

• Expansion of Mercantilism

• Increased efficiency of crop irrigation

• Expansion of the plantation system

How did Samuel Morse's best-known innovation contribute to U.S. growth and development?

• It enabled instantaneous long distance transmission of information

• It allowed manufacturers goods to be produced at lower-costs

• It boosted the speed of cross-country mail delivery.

• It increased national unity by reducing sectional differences.

The innovation shown in this photograph most affected the U.S. economy by

• decreased the need for canals

• allowing more efficient movement of goods

• reducing the costs of settling in Western territories

• transporting workers from southern states to northern states

How did free enterprise system MOST benefit industrial development in the first half of the 1800's?

• By allowing entrepreneurs to raise money and invest in companies

• By establishing quotas on immigrants

• By providing safe working conditions for factory workers

• By encouraging the government to put taxes on businesses

The completion of the Erie Canal played a key role in which development?

• New York City becoming a vital commercial center with the country's busiest seaport

• New Orleans becoming a leader in manufacturing and overseas trade

• Washington DC becoming a cultural and political center of the nation

• Boston becoming one of the country's target transportation hubs

How did advancements in industrial technologies affect businesses during the late nineteenth century?

• By making handcrafted good more affordable

• By improving production methods and increasing competition

• By forcing producers to manufacture multiple products

• By causing an increase in wages for factory workers,

The introduction of the interchangeable parts led directly to the

• formation of the patent system

• eight-hour workday

• creation of labor unions

• use of mass-production techniques

During the early 1800's many young women in New England were employed outside their home as

• crew members on a cargo ships

• cloth weavers in textile mills

• staff reporters for local newspapers

• legal counselors in state courts

Job opportunities in cities increased.

Agriculture became more mechanized.

Prices of consumer goods decreased.

• Industrialization

• westward migration

• expansion of U.S. territory

• government regulation of business

John Deere invented the steel plow this innovation had an effect on which region-

• West

• Northwest

• Midwest

• South