8.37 Industrial Revolution Exit Ticket

What effect did Samuel Slater have on the American Industrial Revolution?

• He brought British textile manufacturing to America

• He created the Lowell System

• He created the cotton gin

• He was the first to use interchangeable parts

Which of the following best describes the Lowell System?

• a system that only employed workers who belonged to labor unions

• a system of textile manufacturing in which all steps of the process are performed in one factory

• a system that used parts individually created by skilled craftsmen

• a system of textile manufacturing in which cloth is woven using yarn imported from overseas.

Which of the following best describes the trade unions of the early nineteenth century?

• unskilled laborers organized by region

• skilled craftsmen organized by the ethnic background

• skilled craftsmen organized by a specific occupation

• unskilled laborers organized by income

Eli Whitney invented a machine called the cotton gin. Before this, seeds in cotton had to be picked out by hand. The cotton gin separated the seeds from the cotton fibers, and cotton was processed more quickly. Which of the following was a result of this invention?

• Slaves were replaced by the new machinery

• More slaves were needed to pick cotton

• Farmers began to hire labor to work the fields

• Farmers did not need to grow as much cotton

Memorized the designs of British textile machines and brought them to America.

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Samuel Slater

• The Lowell Girls"

• Eli Whitney

Workers organizing in the 1830's to improve working conditions; striking for higher pay and against higher hours.

• Trade Unions

• Lowell System

• Textile Industry

• Reform

Industrialist who developed a mill system that included looms that could both weave thread and spin cloth.

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Nat Turner

Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing, popularized by Eli Whitney.

• interchangeable parts

• parts

• trades

• cotton

Industries primarily concerned with the design of manufacture of clothing.

• Cotton gin

• Textile Industry

• Cotton Industry

• Trade Industry

Which of the following is true about interchangeable parts? (3)

• Each part is identical to others like it

• Unskilled workers could assemble it quickly

• Parts could be replaced without replacing the entire mechanism

• The entire mechanism would need to be replaced

• Only skilled workers could assemble it