Industrial Revolution - 15 Q

What are textiles?

• Text that covers tiles
• Tiles from Texas
• small text messages written on paper in the 1800s
• fabrics, cloth items, and interweaved plant fibers

What is mass production?

• The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
• Making mass using energy according to the equation E=mc²
• Making lots of tractors
• Having lots of kids

What did the Lowell system employ?

• unmarried men
• unmarried women
• married men
• slaves

What did trade unions do?

• Try to improve pay and working condidions
• Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
• Trade tractors
• Trade unions traded unions

What did Samuel F. B. Morse invent?

• Morse code and the telegraph
• Morse code and the telephone
• Samuel code and the telephone
• Samuel code and the telegraph

What is the definition of efficient?

• wasteful, not productive
• productive, not wasteful
• does not waste energy
• Writing as little as possible so you can do what you want to faster.

These developments occurred as a result of increased--

• industrialization
• westward migration
• expansion of U.S. territory
• government regulation of business

The innovation shown in this photograph most affected the U.S. economy by--

• decreasing the need for canals
• allowing more efficient movement of goods
• reducing the costs of settling in western territories
• transporting workers from southern states to northern states

What is the movement of people from rural to urban areas called?

• ruralization
• colonization
• inflation
• urbanization

Textile

• factories
• coal
• iron
• cloth