Chapter 10 Technological Advancements Impact the Nation

The first person to think of or make something new is called ______________.

• an inventor

• a reaper

• a pioneer

• an entrepreneur

A person who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market is called _______________.

• an inventor

• a reaper

• a pioneer

• an entrepreneur

During the Industrial Revolution, new technology changed life in America. People invented new_________to make work easier and faster.

• laws

• machines

• medicines

The_________allowed farmers to harvest more crops in less time.

• textile mill

• mechanical reaper

• steamboat

People also invented new types of transportation, like the__________.

• cotton gin & textile mill

• telegraph & mechanical reaper

• steamboat & steam locomotive

The amount of goods and services produced in a certain amount of time is called _______________.

• technology

• industry

• productivity

• entrepreneur

When a business increases productivity, it produces _______________ goods and services than it did before.

• fewer

• more

Which technology allowed the farmer to be more productive?

• steel plow

• wooden plow

The word textile means cloth or fabric. Before the Industrial Revolution, most textiles were made__________.

• by machine

• by hand

The_________could weave yarn faster than any person could do it by hand.

• power loom

• spindle