Industrial Revolution

How were goods made prior to the Industrial Revolution?

• made by hand

• made with machines

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel Morse

Women hired to work in the textile factories

• Daughters of Liberty

• Spice Girls

• Lowell Girls

Why were factories located along rivers?

• to clean the products

• sanitation purposes

• power the machines

Which correctly describes urbanization?

• movement of people from the urban centers to rural areas

• movement of people from the rural areas to the cities

Which invention led to an increase in cotton production and slavery?

• steamboat

• telgraph

• interchangeable parts

• cotton gin

Which invention led to the faster transport of people and goods?

• telegraph

• cotton gin

• steamboat

• interchangeable parts

What does the word textile mean?

• right to vote

• to leave

• cloth

• cotton

Which invention led to instantaneous communication over long distances?

• interchangeable parts

• steel plow

• cotton gin

• telegraph

Which word would correctly describe the production of goods during the Industrial Revolution?

• slow

• efficient

• expensive

• tedious