Industrial Revolution Mastery Assignment
Please choose the correct answer.
1. By bringing spinning technology to New England, Samuel Slater started
America’s
a. Canal Revolution
b. Waltham System
c. Industrial Revolution
d. Lowell System
2.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Why were some of America’s early factories located in New England?
Swift moving streams and rivers provided a source of power
Poor soil conditions made farm families willing to do factory work
It had ships and access to oceans to transport finished goods
All of the above
3.
a.
b.
c.
d.
What modes of transportation improved the nation’s economy?
canals, steamboats, improved roads, steam powered engines
cars, bicycles, canals, improved tools
steam boats, steam powered trains, submarines
steamboats, steam powered trains, cars
4. Which was not true about the invention of the cotton gin?
a. It’s development was encouraged by the growth of textile mills
b. It reduced the need for slave labor on Southern plantations
c. It encouraged settlers to settle on Native American land
d. It enabled southerners to grow more cotton
5.What was the immediate impact of the cotton gin?
a. It made short-staple cotton more profitable
b. It drove planters out of business
c. It made land more fertile
d. It made slavery unprofitable
6.What long-term change was a result of the invention of the cotton gin?
a. cotton farming spread northward
b. demand for cotton decreased
c. Indians living in the southern uplands planted cotton
d. The demand for slave labor increased
7. The cotton gin was invented in1793 by?
a. Catherine Greene
b. Eli Whitney
c. Frederick Douglass
d. Robert Fulton
8. Which invention did Samuel F. B. Morse create and what were its effects?
a. cotton gin-made cotton the major cash crop in the south
b. telegraph-allowed people to communicate over long distances
c. steamboat-led to faster transportation and improved goods
d. plow-increased farm production
9. What idea of Eli Whitney transformed manufacturing by making each copy of
a manufactured item exactly alike?
a. Telephone
b. Spinning machine
c. Tariff
d. Interchangeable parts
10. How did transportation change life in the 1800’s?
a. They encouraged national unity by linking distant places
b. They opened up larger markets for products
c. They made the movement of people and products cheaper and easier
d. All of the above
11. Which of the following factors was a reason for immigration to the United
States in the mid-1800s?
a. Safe and comfortable ocean travel
b. Good harvests in Europe
c. Economic opportunity in America
d. European prosperity
12. How did immigration change between 1820 and 1860?
a. It increased
b. It decreased
c. No change
d. It went up and down
13. About how many immigrants arrived during the 1840’s?
a. 1,600
b. 2,500,000
c. 1,700,000
d. 3,600,089
Please use the map to answer the following question 14-16.
14. The Erie Canal connects which of the following?
a. Hudson River to Lake Erie
b. Hudson River to Toledo
c. Cumberland to Lake Erie
d. Richmond to Pittsburg
15. Approximately how many miles long was the National Road?
a. 450
b.600
c. 1000
d. 1500
16. Which sections of the country benefited most from these roads and canals?
a. The South and West
b. The Midwest and the Northwest
c. The Northeast and the Midwest
d. The South and the East
17. Why did young women come and work in the factories?
a. They loved dust and noise
b. High wages and few hours
c. Money and independence
d. Popularity
18. What were the conditions inside the factory?
a. Damp and dark
b. Dusty and smelly
c. Dangerous and loud
d. All of the above
19. Who made the first steamboat?
a. Robert Barnes
b. Robert Fullmore
c. Robert Fulton
d. Robert Braz
20. The steamboat impacted the United States because?
a. It allowed transportation of goods form California to New Orleans
b. It allowed transportation of goods down the Mississippi River to New Orleans
c. It allowed transportation of goods from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean
d. It allowed transportation of goods from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Please use the graph to answer questions 21- 23.
21. What place provided the greatest number of immigrants in 1840?
a. Germany
b. Great Britain
c. Ireland
d. The rest of Europe
22. What percentage of immigrants who arrived in 1850 were British?
a. 14 percent
b. 21 percent
c. 44 percent
d. 4 percent
23. What place provided the fewest number of immigrants in 1840?
a. Germany
b. Great Britain
c. Ireland
d. The rest of Europe
24. The National Road went from?
a. Cumberland to Vandalia
b. Cumberland to Lake Erie
c. Pittsburg to Vandalia
d. Hudson River to Vandalia
25. The Catholic Irish immigrants came to this country because they were not
able to do what in their own country
a. Vote
b. Own land
c. Go to school
d. All of the above
Answers: 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. D 7. B 8. B 9. D 10. D 11. C 12.
A 13. C 14. A 15. B 16. C 17.C 18. D 19. C 20. B 21. C 22.A 23.B 24.A
25. D