Module 13 - THE NORTH

True or false: The Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid growth using machines to make goods, arose in Great Britain in the mid-1700s.

• True
• False

Why did the United States make rapid improvements in manufacturing after the War of 1812?

• Because they could still trade with Great Britain
• The War of 1812 cut off trade with Great Britain, allowing manufacturing in the United States to prosper and expand.
• Because they were getting their goods through the Atlantic Slave Trade
• Manufacturing in the United States did not improve

Lowell Mill girls were typically (choose the answer that best completes the statement)

• families of young girls
• direct relatives of Henry VIII
• undocumented immigrants
• young, unmarried free women

Before the Industrial Revolution how were goods made?

• By machine
• By hand
• Apprentices did all the work
• None of the above

Samuel Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks was called the what?

• Family Work System
• The Brady Bunch
• Rhode Island System
• Lowell Mill System

Samuel Slater brought the secrets of the textile mills to the United States. Why did he locate his mills by water?

• The mills were powered by water
• He needed access to water to accomodate all of his employees
• Water was used to clean the factories, providing better conditions for workers
• Water was cheaper to power your factory than steam power

Workers organized to reform (improve/change) working conditions. Select all the examples below that would have needed reforming:

• Long working hours
• Poor conditions
• They were paid great and worked 8am -- 5pm
• Being underpaid

Labor unions staged protests called refusing to work until employers met their demands.

• Violent Protests
• Strikes
• Sit ins
• riots

A period of rapid growth in new means of transportation was called the

• Transportation Revolution
• The Steam Engine
• The Transcontinental Railroad
• A Revolution

True or False: The U.S. economy declined as railroads moved goods cheaply to distant markets.

• True
• False