The Telegraph
True or False: The telegraph had a significant effect on communication for businesses but NOT private citizens.
False. It had an effect on both businesses and private citizens.
True or False:
Steamboats increased trade and profits because goods could be moved more quickly and cheaply
True
The _______________, a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel, created a boom in business across the United States, particularly by reducing shipping time and costs.
Transportation Revolution
In order to solve his problem of finding enough labor, Samuel Slater began hiring _____________ and paying them extremely low wages.
Children
True or False: With Unions...
Some states passed laws that guaranteed a minimum wage.
Some states passed laws that ended child labor in factories.
Some states passed laws that prevented hiring women in factories.
FALSE. 10 hour workdays were passed
The __________ was one invention that improved daily life at home.
True or False the industrial revolution was able to happen because cities and the population got smaller
False. They got bigger!
At the start of the Industrial Revolution, most factories ran on _________ power
Water power
True or False: the telegraph increased the variety of products being made
False. It increased speed of communication.
True or False: The Transportation Revolution enabled goods, people, and information to travel farther and faster than before.
True
Which form of transportation was invented during the 1800s and led to a rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel?
steamboats
__________ changed the textile industry by developing a system that employed young, unmarried women from local farms.
Francis Cabot Lowell
True or False: The Lowell System employed young, unmarried men who were given room and meals along with their jobs.
False
Two inventions by Eli Whitney
interchangeable parts + cotton gin
People using machines to create processes that made goods in more efficient ways led to the…
Industrial Revolution
Which event led to the widespread use of the telegraph?
The Democratic National Convention in 1844. People were able to hear about James Polk's nomination amazingly quickly
The American who designed the first full-sized commercial steamboat was
Robert Fulton
By 1860, ___________ became some of the most powerful businesses in the nation.
railroad companies
Workers formed trade unions in order to____
improve pay + improve working conditions
In 1769 British entrepreneur _____________ invented a large spinning machine called a ______________ which could produce dozens of cotton threads at the same time.
Richard Arkwright + Water Frame
Three changes that resulted from the shift to steam-powered factories?
Workers received lower wages.
Population sizes in cities increased.
Shipping costs were reduced for businesses.
Railroads led to economic growth because they ________________
enabled manufacturers and farmers to send their goods to distant markets.
How did the ruling on Gibbons v. Ogden expand federal authority?
Why would young women have wanted to go to work in the Lowell mills? Name 3
Make more money
Escape farm life
Support families
Get an education
Independence
Which of the following correctly describes the working conditions most factory workers encountered?
Three parts!
low wages
strictly controlled daily schedules
dangerous working environments