Key Terms
What is the term for goods made from cloth?
Answer: What are textiles?
Who perfected the assembly line method of production?
Answer: Who is Henry Ford?
What kind of jobs did children ages 6–12 often work during the Industrial Revolution?
Answer: What is child labor?
What canal gave NY the nickname "The Empire State"?
Answer: What is the Erie Canal?
Who was the first U.S. President and gave up power peacefully?
Answer: Who is George Washington?
Who brought the first factory system to the U.S.?
Answer: Who is Samuel Slater?
Which factory worker founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association?
Answer: Who is Sarah Bagley?
Why did factory jobs become necessary for many families?
Answer: They needed income to pay bills and survive.
Name two new types of transportation in the Industrial Revolution.
Answer: What are railroads and steamships?
What event happened on July 4, 1776?
Answer: What is the signing of the Declaration of Independence
What are mass-produced identical replacement components called?
Answer: What are interchangeable parts?
Who invented the powered loom?
Answer: Who is Edmund Cartwright?
Why were women and children hired in factories?
Answer: Small hands, low pay, few rights
Why didn’t steamboats need wind?
Answer: They used coal-powered steam engines.
What tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with colonists?
Answer: Who are the Wampanoag?
What term describes people moving from the countryside to cities?
Answer: What is urbanization?
What reform did Sarah Bagley fight for?
Answer: Better working conditions and shorter hours
How were factory workers different from slaves?
Answer: Factory workers were paid; slaves were property and unpaid
What invention boosted the Southern economy and increased slavery?
Answer: What is the cotton gin?
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Answer: The highest law or rule book of the United States
Who invented the idea of creating brand names for products?
Answer: Who is Josiah Wedgewood?
How did Sarah Bagley’s work symbolize the rise of the middle class?
Explain what being middle class is:
Answers may differ.
What made factory work so “monotonous and tedious”?
Answer: Tasks were boring, repetitive, and done for long hours.
How did transportation improvements affect the price and availability of goods?
Answer: Prices dropped, goods were mass produced and shipped faster.
What Native American tribes clashed with settlers after the Wampanoag?
Answer: Who are the Comanche and Apache?