The North Review

Who brought the secrets of textile mill manufacturing from Great Britain to the United States?

• Samuel Slater
• Richard Arkwright
• Eli Whitney
• Tony Hawk

Who invented the spinning machine in 1769?

• Eli Whitney
• Samuel Slater
• Richard Arkwright
• Larry Bird

Samuel Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks was called what?

• Rhode Island System
• Staten Island System
• Victoria Island System
• Baffin Island System

What country built the world’s most productive textile manufacturing industry?

• Germany
• Ireland
• Poland
• Great Britain

Who created a new system of mill manufacturing in 1814?

• Richard Arkwright
• Samuel Slater
• Francis Lowell
• Eli Whitney

Factory workers & craftsmen formed what to gain higher wages and better working conditions?

• Shift Unions
• Timber Unions
• Trade Unions
• Work Unions

Who introduced the idea of interchangeable parts, or parts of a machine that are identical, to make musket manufacturing easier?

• Richard Arkwright
• Eli Whitney
• Patrick Mahomes
• Samuel Slater

What period of rapid growth using machines to make goods arose in Great Britain in the mid-1700s?

• Industrial Revolution
• Carpenter Revolution
• Innovative Revolution
• Powerful Revolution

Who invented the steamboat?

• Sarah G. Bagley
• Robert Fulton
• Eli Whitney
• Jordan Walker

Who had a strong voice in the union movement?

• Samuel Slater
• Sarah G. Bagley
• Eli Whitney
• Martha Washington