US Industrial Rev

Who started the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Ben Franklin

• Alexander Graham Bell

What part of the United States was the location of most of the factories?

• The Oregon Trail

• The South

• The North

• New England

What was one of the inventions from the Agricultural Revolution?

• Mechanical Reaper

• Steamboat

• Telegraph

• Steam engine

What group of people worked in the factories?

• The Irish immigrants

• Unmarried women

• Small Children

• Slaves

Industrialization is the process of using _______ and factories to produce goods.

• Cotton Gin

• Transportation

• People

• Machines

Interchangeable parts were created by _______

• Eli Whitney

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Slater

• Robert Fulton

Urbanization is the movement of people from the rural (country) to

• richer area

• the cities

• the farms

• another country

In the 1840s, thousands of Irish immigrants came to the United States seeking to escape...

• a series of smallpox epidemics

• a civil war between Protestants and Catholics

• a famine caused by the failure of a staple food crop

• a series of violent conflicts between the British and Irish governments

Which statement best describes a result of industrialization in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century?

• people moved to cities in search of economic opportunity

• native peoples were forcibly relocated to western territories

• farmers began to cultivate land west of the Appalachian Mountains

• government officials began to promote the idea of Manifest Destiny

Why did slavery become a widespread practice in the United States during the early nineteenth century?

• Improved transportation systems made it easier for workers to migrate.

• Advancements in technology led to the need for skilled workers.

• The need for agricultural labor increased as a result of expanded cotton production.

• The system of indentured servitude was banned.