6.2 Industrial Revolution inventions

The Textile industry was revolutionized by Francis Cabot Lowell, and four others in which US City

• Philadelphia

• New Amsterdam

• Boston

• Pawtucket

Distribution

• takes on the risk of running a business
• transporting product
• natural resources
• money and assets

Which of the following is the correct order in which the cotton industry progressed?

• Spinning Jenny, Sewing Machines, Powered Looms, Water Wheel Factories 
• Cottage Industry, Spinning Jenny, Water Wheel Factories, Steam Powered Looms
• Looms in the home, Cottage Industry, Steam Powered Looms, Sewing Machines
• Needle and thread, Cottage Industry, Sewing Machines, Steam Powered Looms

Steam engines were powered by

• running water
• coal
• solar energy
• electricity

James Watt’s steam engine 

• enabled industries to be located anywhere 
• meant that industries had to be located near rivers
• allowed factory workers to have less working hours
• horsepower was no longer needed

Railroads provided industry with all of the following EXCEPT

• a boom in the iron industry
• lower distribution costs
• an increase in the number of jobs
• an increase in impoverished workers 

Shown in the picture, The Clermont, was the first steamboat designed by

• Robert Fulton

• Thomas Newcomen

• James Watt

• Joseph Foster

The belief that government should not interfere with the free market is known as

• Laissez-faire economics   
• divine right
• emancipation
• voodoo economics

This style of economy was based on competition, self interest and supply/demand.

• capitalism

• mercantilism

• socialism

• communism

The power loom was used with what natural resource?

• Cotton

• Wood

• Corn

• Sugar