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WorksheetsThe North
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Americans' lives changed rapidly in the North as a result of
baking
shipping
agriculture
industrialization
The system of ____ was developed to represent letter of the alphabet when sending telegraph messages.
textile
railroad
Morse code
Braille
Who was the first American woman to hold high rank in the labor movement?
Sarah Grimke
Sarah Bagley
Dorothea Dix
Emily Dickenson
What was the term for the period of rapid growth with machines and manufacturing?
Industrial Revolution
Industrial strength
Agriculture
Yankee ingenuity
Peter Cooper built the first ____ in the U.S.
steamboat
railroad
canal
train
What is the term for when Northern workers refused to work in order to force factory owners to meet their demands for better pay and working conditions?
textile
strike
refusal
lazy
What industry was the first to use machines for manufacturing their product?
shipping
agriculture
textile
lumber
The first machines of the Industrial Revolution were powered by
electricity
water
animals
coal
The earliest important evidence of the Industrial Revolution in America was found in...
the way cotton was processed
the production of tobacco products
the manufacture of cloth and thread
the construction of the first steam railroads
The Transportation Revolution of the 1850's had all of the following effects EXCEPT:
it reduced the time and cos of shipping goods
helped to created a boost in business and agriculture
made travel upstream on rivers faster and easier
limited the federal government's ability to control trade among states
What change in technology allowed business owners to sell their goods in markets across the country?
the Lowell system
the growth of railroads
the invention of the telegraph
the Arkwright system
Which of the following historical figures changed the world like Samuel Morse did?
Marco Polo
Archimedes
Johannes Gutenberg
Sir Isaac Newton
The changes in America's Industrial and Technological revolutions were MOST like earlier economic changes in?
Japan
India
Africa
England and Holland
The economy in the North was based on
agriculture
manufacturing
invention
trade unions
Most American textile mills were located in the Northeast because of the
lower business taxes
many cotton fields
many rivers and streams
more women workers
The growth in manufacturing and transportation caused growth in
cities
farms
slaves
travel
Which inventor created interchangeable parts and sold guns to the government?
Sam Slater
Samuel Morse
Samuel Whitney
Eli Whitney
Which led to the infertility of Northern geography?
rich soil
rocky soil
rainy summers
warm winters
Parts of a machine that are identical are called
identical parts
correct parts
uniform parts
interchangeable parts
The growth of cities led to the need for
public services
public pools
slave labor
horses
