WorksheetsModule 13: The North
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
The invention of new machines in Great Britain led to the beginning of the
Civil War
War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Lowell System
Textiles are
technology
interchangeable
tools
cloth items
The efficient production of identical goods:
interchangeable parts
mass production
cotton gin
strikes
He was a skilled British mechanic who built textile machines:
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Richard Arkwright
Eli Whitney
The efficient production of large number of identical goods.
cotton gin
interchangeable parts
textiles
technology
A mill worker who founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association:
Francis Lowell
Susie Slater
Sarah G. Bagely
Cindy McCormick
Groups that tried to improve workers pay and working conditions:
textiles
Republican Party
women textile workers
trade unions
The strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks was called:
Lowell system
Rhode Island system
Slater system
Arkwright system
After a slow start in manufacturing, the U.S. made rapid improvements during the
War of 1812
Revolutionary War
Battle of Tippecanoe
Trail of Tears
He paid his workers in credit rather than cash:
Francis Cabot Lowell
Eli Whitney
John Deere
Samuel Slater
He built a system that encouraged young women to work in the textile mills:
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Cyrus McCormick
Samuel Morse
The inventor of the water frame that created dozens of cotton threads at once.
Robert Fulton
Isaac Singer
Samuel Slater
Richard Arkwright
He came up with the idea of mass producing guns:
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
Fought to obtain a 10 hour day:
Sarah G. Bagley
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Richard Arkwright
What is the area of the U.S. where the Industrial Revolution began?
Northeast
Northwest
Southeast
Southwest
