WorksheetsIndustrial North and Agricultural South
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of the following statements would be true of cities during the Industrial Revolution?
Cities were full of disease and crime.
Cities contained good sanitation conditions.
People faced less opportunities for social advancement.
City populations declined as people moved to farms.
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin which would comb the seeds out of cotton. What was the effect of this invention?
It reduced global demand for cotton and led United States farmers to grow other crops.
It made it possible to produce clothing by machine and led to the building of textile factories throughout the Southern United States.
It allowed people to grow cotton on land that had previously been considered too dry and led to large-scale irrigation projects in the Western United States.
It allowed cotton to be processed more quickly and profitably and led to the expansion of slavery in the Southern United States.
An announced cutback in wages caused several cotton mill workers to refuse to work. Which of the following is likely the result...
Although help was in great supply in Lowell, workers did not mind an announced cutback in wages.
Although help was in great demand in Lowell, an announced cut back in wages touched off the first cotton-factory strike.
Although help was in great demand in Lowell, workers were offered a wage increase to prevent striking.
Strikes were common everywhere except Lowell, where workers were offered regular wage increases.
What conclusion can one reach about the huge increase in cotton production and the price of cotton?
An increase in production would cause a decrease in price.
There would be an increase in cotton workers wages.
There was a decrease in the wages of cotton workers.
There was a decrease in the production and an increase in price.
Examine the picture of Phillis Wheatley.
What is one way her experience as an enslaved person was different from most enslaved people?
She was mistreated by her master.
Her primary job was working in fields.
Her primary job was educating children.
She could read and write, and was allowed time to devote to her poetry.
What is the telegraph
Business owner
Device the sends messages by wire
inventor of steel plow
Raising two or more crops for sale
Who was Nat Turner?
Long time supporter of Southern state rights.
Leader of slave uprising in Virginia 1831.
Led raid on Harper's Ferry
Jackson's vice president.
What was used as transportation during the Transportation Revolution?
Cars
Trains and Steamboats
Airplanes
Sailboats and Canals
How did Samuel Slater get his plans into the US?
He smuggled them.
He memorized them.
He bribed the guards.
He built a prototype to bring with him.
Inventor of the steel plow
Samuel F.B. Morse
Eli Whitney
John Deere
Cyrus McCorkick
