Industrial Revolution

What is the significance of interchangeable parts

• It made farming less profitable

• It made it possible to produce items in large numbers

• It increased the demand for slave labor

• It undermined the factory system

A change in the way goods were produced, from human labor to machines was known as _____________.

• nationalism

• textiles

• sectionalism

• The Industrial Revolution

______ is the inventor of the Cotton gin, a machine that removes seeds from cotton.

• Eli Whitney

• James Monroe

• George Washington Carver

• Francis Cabot Lowell

Before the Industrial Revolution all products were created by

• Factories
• Hand
• Slaves
• Royalty

• F

• G

• H

• J

During the Industrial Revolution, what continues to expand into western territories?

• slave labor

• factories

• Indian attacks

Who invented the telegraph?

• Isaac Singer

• Cyrus McCormick

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• John Deere

Who invented the steel plow which improved farming?

• John Deere

• Cyrus McCorminck

• Isaac Singer

• Peter Cooper

Who invented the telephone?

• Nikola Tesla

• Alexander Graham Bell

• The Wright Brothers

• Karl Marx

What device did Alexander Graham Bell create that changed communication forever?

• The telephone

• The automobile

• The bicycle

• The radio