Ch 13 Sec 1 & 2

At the beginning of the 1700's, most Europeans and Americans were

• craftspeople

• indentured servants

• farmers

• factory workers

____ brought English textile machinery designs to the U.S.A.

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

An example of the cottage industry is

• power looming

• building steam engines

• making interchangeable parts

• hand weaving

During the Industrial Revolution,

• textile workers rebelled against mill owners

• people stopped using machines to produce goods

• a growing number of people left factories to work on farms

• the use of machines in production grew rapidly

____ is the country where the Industrial Revolution began.

• Russia

• Great Britain

• Spain

• Germany

How did Eli Whitney change the process of making guns?

• His workers made each part by hand

• He relied on interchangeable parts, which were identical

• He did not hire any workers, relying only on machines

• He refused to build a factory

The region of ____, in the U.S.A., was where industrialization was concentrated.

• the Southern states

• the Pacific Northwest

• New England

• California

How did the War of 1812 help American manufacturing?

• Tariffs of foreign goods encouraged Americans to buy domestic goods

• The government built factories to produce needed uniforms and weapons

• Foreign goods became too expensive so politicians placed tariffs on them

• The government boycotted British products that Americans also produced

Young women could earn better wages working in a Lowell mill than teaching school.

• True

• False

Competition for factory jobs caused wages to increase.

• True

• False