The North: Industrialization History Quiz

Question 1

Industrial Revolution

Answer 1

a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s

Question 2

Textiles

Answer 2

Traditional spinning method vs water frame
~increased speed and lowered cost of clothing
~Cloth produced in mills instead of home
~Large factories emerged in North (more rivers)

Question 3

Water frame

Answer 3

~New water frame revolutionized production of cloth
~It shifted production away from home to mills

Question 4

Who introduced the concept of Interchangeable parts?

Answer 4

Eli Whitney

Question 5

Samuel Slater

Answer 5

Developed Rhode Island System
“ Father of the American Industrial Revolution”
~Spy who brought secrets of british textile methods to US
~Hired families of workers and divided factory work into simple tasks

Question 6

Francis Cabot Lowell

Answer 6

Businessman who changed textile industry by developing Lowell system
~made lowell system

Question 7

Lowell system

Answer 7

based on water powered textile mills that employed young women from local farms

~New power loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in same mill!
~Excited investors + more workers hired = helped textile mills expand
~gave women aged 15-35 a chance to support themselves

Question 8

Transportation revolution

Answer 8

Period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel and new methods of transportation

Question 9

Steamboats

Answer 9

Well-suited for rivers bc they could travel upstream

Question 10

What was the first steamboat and who invented it?

Answer 10

The “Clermont” by Robert Fulton

Question 11

What was the first steam powered train and who invented it?

Answer 11

Peter Cooper’s “Tom Thumb”

Question 12

Railroads

Answer 12

Use of coal as a fuel source
Produced more energy!

Question 13

effects of railroads

Answer 13

1. New towns erupted
2. Logging industry boomed
3. Coal industry boomed
4. Changed landscape of America

Question 14

Golden age of Steam Locomotive

Answer 14

Demand for faster travel and more rail connections drove the pace of railroad construction

Question 15

telegraph

Answer 15

Perfected by Samuel F. Morse, which allowed for information to be quickly sent over wires across distances

Question 16

Morse Code

Answer 16

developed by Morse’s friend Alfred Lewis Vail, a system of codes and dashes that represent letters of the alphabet

Question 17

John Deere

Answer 17

Invented new steel plow to help farmers plant and grow food more quickly

Question 18

Cyrus McCormick

Answer 18

Invented new harvesting reaper which increased the cutting of wheat

Question 19

What increased South’s production of huge crop fields?

Answer 19

Steel plow and reaper

Question 20

America takes initiative

Answer 20

After the War of 1812 America was forced to become self-reliant on producing own goods

~Trade embargo with England
~Factories emerged to compete with growing demand of goods
~Even Jefferson admit Industry key for economic success

Question 21

Results of Transportation Revolution

Answer 21

~Steel, coal, logging all became direct results of the transportation revolution
~America’s economy experienced rapid growth

Question 22

Alexis de Tocqueville

Answer 22

French observer who observed that Industrial revolution made American life more “convenient”

Question 23

New products

Answer 23

New products and competition forced new selling techniques and consumer satisfaction
~Buy on credit
~Provide free/cheap repairs
~Gave public demonstrations

Thanks to Industrial Revolution, ppl became reliant on keeping schedules and routines