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

Which of the following completes the list of effects of the introduction of the cotton gin?

• the demand for enslaved workers increased

• Plantation owners had more leisure time

• the demand for cotton increased

• More Northern began raising cotton

What did Samuel Morse invent?

• Cotton Gin

• Water Frame

• Steel Plow

• Telegraph

What did Robert Fulton invent?

• Mechanical Reaper

• Steamboat

• Spinning Jenny

• Interchangeable Parts

What did Cyrus McCormick invent?

• Steel Plow

• Cotton Gin

• Mechanical Reaper

• Steam Engine

What did John Deere invent?

• Steel Plow

• Mechanical Plow

• Steam Engine

• Steamboat

Before the Industrial Revolution, all products were made by

• Factories

• Slaves

• Hand

• Royalty

How did railroads impact the prices of goods and services?

• Made them more expensive and harder to ship

• Gave people a way of transportation

• Made them cheaper and easier to ship