Industrial Revolution and Monroe Review

What product was first made using machines in factories?

• Steel
• textiles
• locomotives
• flying shuttles

The combination of resources, improved transportation, and technological breakthroughs all led to the

• Era of Good Feelings

• Industrial Revolution

• Manifest Destiny

• Adoption of gold standard

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, many factories were built along rivers because

• water was a major source of irrigation

• water power was used to power factory machines

• ships could easily deliver goods to factories

• ships could bring in supplies

A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.

• Cartel

• Corporation

• Factory

• Urbanization

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

• Low wages

• Dangerous working conditions

• Safe working conditions

• Widespread pollution

How did people's lives change because of the Industrial Revolution? 

• People bought more handmade goods than before 
• people worked mostly on farms 
• people bought factory made items and worked outside the home
• people made a lot of money making homemade items 

Immigration changed during the Industrial Revolution because...

• America was gaining power and money 
• factories offered jobs to incoming immigrants 
• people wanted to own a factory 
• no one bought homemade items 

Cities began to grow around the industrial centers because...

• people wanted to be part of the new growing cities 
• people had to live near the factory to be able to work there because of lack of transportion
• people did not like living on farms anymore 
• farms were all failing and people wanted to see what cities were like 

Slavery was impacted by the industrial revolution by...

• as the demand for cotton lessened the number of slaves decreased 
• as the demand for cotton increased the number of slaves increased 
• the North refused to buy cotton from the South because of slavery 
• Slavery was not impacted by the Industrial Revolution because it was in the South and the factories were in the North

Why did Irish immigrants leave Ireland to work in the factories in America?

• Irish factories paid less

• they were hoping to find gold

• there was a famine (lack of food) in Ireland and people were starving