7th-Ch 10 Lesson 1

The machines ran on _______, so British cloth makers built mills along rivers and installed the machines in these mills.

• Dunkin'

• by hand

• waterpower

• electricity

The Industrial Revolution began to take root in the United States around 1800, appearing first in ______

• New England

• the Southern states

• the mid Atlantic States

• California

People in New England were willing to leave their farms to find work elsewhere because...

• no one was buying their crops

• the government forced them to.

• They were paid $15 an hour.

• the soil was poor

Which of the following did not play a role in New England’s Industrial Revolution?

• waterpower

• government

• location

• capital

In 1793 _____ of Massachusetts invented the cotton gin, a simple machine that quickly and efficiently removed the seeds from the cotton fiber.

• George Washington

• Thomas Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• John Cabot

The British tried to keep their new industrial technology a secret. 

In Britain _______ had worked in a factory that used machines for spinning cotton threads. He memorized the design of the machines and slipped out of Britain in 1789.

• Richard Arkwright

• Eli Whitney

• John Lowell

• Samuel Slater

In 1814 Francis Cabot Lowell opened a textile plant in ______ for the first time, all the stages of cloth making were performed under one roof.

• Massachusettes

• New Hampshire

• New York

• South Carolina

Lowell’s mill launched the ______, a system bringing manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency.

• factory system

• cotton gin

• interchangeable parts

• steam engine

The inventor Eli Whitney started the use of ________-identical machine parts that could be quickly put together to make a complete product.

• steam engine

• Factory System

• interchangeable parts

• Cotton Gin

In the Northeast, farms tended to be small, and the produce was usually marketed locally. In the South, cotton production increased dramatically. 

The demand for cotton had grown steadily with the development of the textile industries of New England and Europe. This led to an increase in the need for _______.

• slave labor

• government assistance

• more farms in the north.

• ships