Industrial Revolution

What impact did inventions such as the telephone, sewing machine, and typewriter have on the role of women in American society?

• These inventions were controlled by the government and therefore limited their role in American politics.

• These inventions provided new job opportunities to women

• These inventions pushed women further out of the working world.

• These inventions provided new job opportunities for children, leaving women with more tasks at home.

How did Henry Ford's assembly line change manufacturing in the United States?

• It caused the price of goods to go up since it was expensive to manufacture them this way.

• It caused a shortage of goods since factories could not produce them as quickly.

• It made it faster, cheaper, and easier to mass produce goods.

• It led to more people attending college to learn the skills needed to work on the assembly line.

How did the availability of electricity affect the location of factories?

• They could only be built next to power stations.

• They no longer had to be near rivers for water power.

• They could be built wherever there was coal.

• They were limited to the northeastern United States.

What was most responsible for connecting the farms of the Midwest to the dinner tables and factories of the eastern cities in the time period after the Civil War?

• ships

• canals

• Transcontinental Railroad

• streetcars

During the Industrial Revolution, the term "technology" referred to what factor other than the physical inventions created during that time?

• finances used to pay for new inventions

• profits made from new inventions

• ideas of how to use new inventions

• laws that protected new inventions

Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the Industrial Revolution?

• A time period in which the transcontinental railroad connected East to West.

• A time period in which the United States economy began making a change from a farming economy to one of industrial manufacturing.

• A time period in which children began to work in factories for long hours and in dangerous conditions.

• A time period in which people were moving from rural areas to large cities.

What are the 4 factors of production?

• Land, labor, capital, technology

• Lead, copper, silver, gold

• Technology, economy, agriculture, industrial

• Oil, money, grazing land, ships

The invention of the assembly line furthered the Industrial Revolution because it _________.

• led to the invention of the light bulb and electricity

• restricted the use of child labor

• encouraged labor unions to form and eliminate monopolies

• allowed for mass production

How did new methods of mass production affect manufacturing in the United States?

• Prices of products went up.

• Products were made more slowly.

• Products were made more quickly and cheaply.

• Fewer products were available for consumers to buy.

The invention of the electric powered streetcar made it possible for people to do which of the following?

• Buy their own car to travel to and from work independently.

• Travel across the country using the Transcontinental Railroad.

• Commute (travel) to work in the city from the outskirts of town.

• Use public transportation powered by biodiesel.