industrial revolution

What kind of immigrants entered the US at Ellis Island?

Which of the following were inventions from the Industrial Revolution (can be more than one correct answer)

• Spinning Jenny

• Computer

• Lightbulb

• Airplane

People moved from rural (country) areas to urban (city) areas for which of the following reasons (may be more than one answer):

• more job opportunities

• better pay

• more land

Who memorized the plans to the textile mills and brought them to the US?

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Robert Fulton

The movement North caused

• overcrowding

• the farms to fail

• Southern white people to pay them more to farm their land

What is meant by the term "Industrial Revolution?"

• A sudden change in how food was being grown and distributed

• A sudden change in how food was being paid for by workers

• A sudden change in how many different things were being made

• A change in how many different things were being paid for

To what does the phrase "facotry system" refer?

• Factories set up along rivers to produce a system of goods

• Factories located in rural areas to escape urbanization

• Workers and machinery producing goods under one roof

• Workers forming the first sytem of labor unions

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• G

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• J

The concept that people may decide what and when they want to buy and sell goods & services

• voluntary exchange

• legal equality

• private property

• open opportunity

What sparked the start of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

• The War of 1812

• The Missouri Compromise

• George Washington's Farewell Address

• The Embargo Act