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What is the Factory System

• People making things at home.

• Using children for labor.

• Making things with the help of machinery.

• Making things by hand

Some of the machines invented in the 18th and 19th centuries are:

• telephones, geographic positioning system, radios, airplanes

• steam engine, railroads, flying shuttle, phonograph, steam ships, light bulb

• sailboats, automobiles, wheel barrels, clocks, word processors

• automatic washer, hair dryer, rockets, space shuttles

Which of the following is considered an impact of Industrialization during the 18th and 19th centuries?

• Increased competition between industrialized nations

• Rise of global inequalities

• Transformation of society.

• All of the above

During the late 1800s, industrialization in the U.S. led to 

• greater numbers of people living on farms
• an overal decline in factory workers
• the creation of new inventions and innovations.
• a decrease in the use of natural resources.

In the late 1800s, which factor directly contributed to the growth of heavy industry in the United States?

• increased government regulation of industries
• employee ownership of heavy industries
• new production techniques that increased efficiency
• court decisions that allowed unions in heavy industries

Why did factories hire women?

• There were more woman workers than men
• women were less likely to have accidents
• women were more likely to work longer hours
• women could be paid less than men

What term is commonly used in reference to those opposed to immigrant workers?

• socialism

• nativism

• machine politics

• populism

Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

• urban areas of the North

• seacoast cities of the South

• rural sections of the Old Northwest

• Appalachia

Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported

• universal manhood suffrage

• immediate abolition of slavery

• homesteads in the western territories

• restrictions on Catholics’ holding public office

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

• England

• Africa

• Ireland

• The German states