5 Written Questions

1. a system developed by Samuel Slater in teh mid-1800s in which whole families were hired as textile worders and factory work was divided into simple tasks
2. the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation
3. the first full-sized US commercial steamboat
4. a region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most US cotton was produced during the mid-1800s
5. he introduced the technology of mass production through the development of interchangable parts in gun-making

5 Matching Questions

1. Peter Cooper
2. yeomen
3. Sara G. Bagley
4. Morse code
5. Industrial Revolution

1. a owners of small farms
2. b American mill worker and union activist, she advocated the 10-hour workday for private industry
3. c American ironworks manufacturer who designed and build Tom Thumb, the first American locomotive
4. d a system developed by Alfred Lewis Vail for the telegraph that used a certain combination of dots and dashes to represent each letter of the alphabet
5. e a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. the tools used to produce goods or to do work
   1. textile
   2. yeomen
   3. telegraph
   4. technology
2. a rebellion in which a gorup of slaves in Virginia in unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow and kill planter families
   1. Cotton Belt
   2. Industrial Revolution
   3. Nat Turner's Rebellion
   4. Transportation Revolution
3. a process developed by Eli Whitbey in the 1790s that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same
   1. technology
   2. Cotton Belt
   3. interchangable parts
   4. Tredegar Iron Works
4. the use of water powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women in the 1800s
   1. Lowell system
   2. Eli Whiteny
   3. Cotton Belt
   4. Rhode Island System
5. a machine perfected by Samuel FB Morse in 1832 that uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through water
   1. Clermont
   2. technology
   3. textile
   4. telegraph

5 True/False Questions

1. planters → a large-scale farmer who held more that 20 slaves

   True        False

2. strike → the refusal of workers to perform their jobs until employers meet their demands

   True        False

3. Francis Cabot Lowell → a region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most US cotton was produced during the mid-1800s

   True        False

4. Tredegar Iron Works → American ironworks manufacturer who designed and build Tom Thumb, the first American locomotive

   True        False

5. textile → cloth

   True        False