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WorksheetsFrom Farm to Factory
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who were the "Mill Girls"?
a)
female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell
b)
donut makers in Endicott
c)
responsible for winding-up windmills on farms
d)
I don't know.
2.
How were the textile mills powered?
a)
Hulk strength
b)
wind
c)
water
d)
heart
3.
Where did most of the girls live before they came to the mills?
a)
Cities
b)
Towns
c)
Farms
d)
Slums
4.
In the 1830s, would it have been proper for a girl to move to the mills alone?
a)
yes
b)
no
5.
Company owners wanted to make more money, so what did they do to the wages of the girls at the mill?
a)
They increased (went up)
b)
they stayed the same
c)
they decreased (went down)
d)
The girls did not get paid
6.
Was the work easy or hard for the girls?
a)
easy
b)
hard
7.
A change from making goods at home by hand to making goods by machines.
a)
Capitalism
b)
Factory System
c)
Industrial Revolution
d)
Urbanization
8.
American who developed a mill system that included both weaving and spinning. He hired many young women to live and work in his mill.
a)
Samuel Slater
b)
Eli Whitney
c)
Francis Cabbot Lowell
d)
Moses Brown
9.
memorized the plans to a steam powered textile mill and brought those plans to the US from Britain
a)
Samuel Slater
b)
Eli Whitney
c)
Francis Cabott Lowell
d)
Moses Brown
10.
Why did the British call inventor Samuel Slater "Slater the Traitor?"
a)
He revealed positions of the British Military
b)
He gave America British military technlogy
c)
He memorized the design of British factory technology and brought it to the US
d)
He stole Whitney's idea of interchangeable parts
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