Industrial Revolution and Reform

In the 1790s, the textile industry in Great Britain was booming creating a huge international demand for...

• indigo

• tobacco

• cotton

• sugarcane

This excerpt describe the cotton gin.

Which of the following were effects of the cotton gin? Select TWO correct answers.

• The cotton gin increased the need for slave labor in the South.

• The cotton gin mass produced textiles for Northern factories.

• The cotton gin enabled farmers to plant huge fields quickly.

• The cotton gin allowed for cotton to be harvested at a quicker rate.

Identify advantages of steamboats.

• Can travel against current up river

• Easier to travel through mountains

• Cheaper than traveling by land

• Increased trade and settlement

1st cheaper way to mass produce steel for machinery & construction

• Trust

• Granger Laws

• Bessemer Process

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Which word means the growth of cities?

• Moving

• colonization

• inflation

• urbanization

Which word means the growth of an economy based on factories and production?

• urbanization

• industrialization

• immunization

• articulation

U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them

• Nativists

• Political Machines/Bosses

• JD Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

What innovation helped people settle the Great Plains and opened new markets in the west?

• Automobile

• Airplane

• Telephone

• Transcontinental Railroad

How did the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad contribute to the settlement of the West?

• By providing people with access to essential goods

• By raising money to build factories along the routes

• By giving funds to local leaders to build schools

• By establishing military forts along the routes

Before 1850, railroads and trains were unreliable and brittle because they were made of_________

• iron
• antique plastic
• hardened rock
• steel