Industrialization
During the first wave of industrialization, workers divided tasks into smaller __________ to increase productivity.
What are steps?
The construction of these man made waterways allowed for faster water travel for all ships and the goods they carried.
What are canals?
The device that used electronic signals to send messages long distances in a matter of minutes.
What is a telegraph?
What was about the average length of the average workday in the mid-1800s?
A. 14 hrs
B. 11 hrs
C. 6 hrs
D. 8 hrs
B. 11 hrs
In 1845 Macon B. Allen became the first African American __________ law in the United States.
A. lawyer
B. president
C. factory owner
D. inventor
A. lawyer
The scarcity of this important crop drove over a million Irish immigrants to travel to the United States in the 1800s.
What are potatoes?
How tall is Mr. Cloutier?
A. 6'6
B. 6'0
C. 5'11
D. 6'3
D. Mr. Cloutier is 6'3
During the second phase of industrialization, entrepreneurs built these to bring specialized workers together.
What are factories?
Robert Fulton invented the first __________ in 1807.
A. Clipper Ship
B. Prop plane
C. Steamboat
D. Pontoon boat
C. Steamboat
The creator of the coded language used to communicate via telegraphs.
What is Morse Code?
This is what factory workers formed to try and improve their working conditions at factories, tackling issues that included shorter work days, more breaks and better pay.
What are trade unions?
True or False: Factory employers normally paid female employees half as much as their male counterparts.
TRUE
True or False: Nativists were groups of Americans who supported immigration to the United States.
FALSE
What size is Mr. Cloutier's shoe?
A. 13
B. 15
C. 11
D. 17
B. Mr Cloutier has a size 15 shoe.
In the third phase, workers used these to complete tasks, which increased productivity and made some parts of work life easier for workers.
What are machines?
The Tom Thumb was the first of this form of transportation, which dramatically increased the speed of travel on land and connected the growing country.
What is a steam powered locomotive (train)?
The mechanical reaper, invented by Cyrus McCormick, increased the amount of _______ harvested in the Mid-West.
A. tobacco
B. wheat
C. eggplant
D. cotton
B. wheat
Factory workers would cause these kinds of work stoppages to put pressure on their employers to meet their demands for better working conditions.
What are strikes?
Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm founded Freedom's Journal, the first African American _____________, in 1827.
A. auto shop
B. trade company
C. shipping factory
D. newspaper
D. newspaper
What was the political party formed by Americans in an effort to create stricter citizenship laws?
A. Green Party
B. Nativist Party
C. Liberty Party
D. Know Nothing Party
D. Know Nothing Party
What is Mr. Cloutier's favorite NFL team?
A. New England Patriots
B. Arizona Cardinals
C. Carolina Panthers
D. Green Bay Packers
C. Mr. Cloutier's favorite team is the Carolina Panthers
Whose invention of the sewing machine increased cloth production in the 1800s?
A. Eli Whitney
B. Elias Howe
C. Russell Crowe
D. Thomas Edison
B. Elias Howe
The increase of railroad tracks (31,000 miles of train track had been built by the late 1800s) throughout the country connected the east coast to this newer part of the country.
A. South
B. North
C. Southeast
D. Mid-West
D. Mid-West
John Deere is famous for his invention of the _______________, which allowed farmers to cut through the hard prairie sod of the Mid-West.
A. cotton gin
B. hedge trimmers
C. wheelbarrow
D. steel tipped plow
D. steel tipped plow
True or False: The ability for workers to strike was illegal until 1842.
TRUE
Sarah G. Bagley, a weaver from Massachusetts, founded the Lowell __________________ in an effort to improve working conditions for women in factories.
A. Factory Improvement Squad
B. Institute of Womens' Labor
C. Female Labor Reform Organization
D. Department of Textiles
C. Female Labor Reform Organization
Which two European countries accounted for the vast majority of immigration to the United States in the 1800s from that continent?
Ireland and Germany.
Where in Rhode Island did Mr. Cloutier grow up?
A. Coventry
B. Providence
C. Warwick
D. Chepachet
A. Mr. Cloutier grew up in Coventry.
Mr. Cloutier has been to all of the following places EXCEPT
A. The Philippines
B. Australia
C. France
D. Sweden
B. Mr. Cloutier has never been to Australia