- Chapter 10.2 Questions
The Industrial Revolution
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- DIRECTIONS:
Answer the following questions on a blank piece of note book paper.
Each question is worth 1 point.
Write your name, date and class period on each page.
When you are done, work on your vocab list, workbook or map .
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- Mass Production
- ____________1. American manufacturers had what type of resources to foster
industrial growth?
- ____________2. What was one obstacle that prevented manufacturers from
mass production?
- ____________3. Who was one the first Americans to improve the nation’s
technology?
- ____________4. Before 1790, was the production of muskets made in mass
quantity or by parts?
- ____________5. Massachusetts arsenal could only produce 1000 muskets, how
many did Whitney promise?
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- Machines Replace Hand Tools
- ____________6. Who invented the “spinning jenny”?
- ____________7. Did the invention of the spinning jenny lower the cost of
cotton clothing?
- ____________8. What factor kept the price of clothing at same or higher
price?
- ____________9. The price of clothing fell when a stronger spinning machine
was invented by whom?
- ____________10. This 2nd invention required what type of force
to operate it?
- ____________11. What did the English call the water=frame powered spinning
machine?
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- The Factory comes to America
- ____________12. How many mills did England have by the late 1780s?
- ____________13. What part of the world was
England exporting its clothing to?
- ____________14. Did England share or want anyone
else to know about this new mill technology?
- ____________15. What were the people who worked
in the mills called?
- ____________16. What area of the U.S. did the
first cotton mills open up?
- ____________17. Families that produced finished
items at home were using what method?
- ____________18. What was the difference between
mill workers in England and the U.S.?
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- The Changing Roles of Women
- ____________19. Was the role of women rejected or
respected in early America?
- ____________20. What prevented women from
obtaining licenses to work in certain practices?
- ____________21. Generally speaking, did women
accept their lot in life as home caretakers?
- ____________22. In a farm economy, women were
seen as what to men in all that they needed?
- ____________23. What single factor led to the
change in the role of women?
- ____________24. What led also the increase in
class distinction?
- ____________25. What were girl schools called at
this time?
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- Recruiting a Labor Force
- ____________26. Back in England who mostly worked
in the mills during the Enclosure Movement?
- ____________27. In America, did most people work
for themselves or did they work for someone else?
- ____________28. What did the Rhode Island system
use to fill the lack of workers?
- ____________29. Give one reason why children were
used to run the mills?
- ____________30. Another method of supplying labor
was to employ young unmarried girls, called what?
- ____________31. According to Charles Dickens,
which country had better working condisions?
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