Chapter 10.2 Questions  The Industrial Revolution
 
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 .     
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?
 
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?
 
 
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.?
 
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?
 
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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