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Chapter 12 Review

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The first machines of the Industrial Revolution were powered by...
Water
The earliest evidence that the Industrial Revolution had come to America was found in...
The manufacture of cloth and thread
The water frame revolutionized the production of cloth by...
Harnessing the power of flowing water, which sped up production
Samuel Slater, the mill owner, filled his Rhode Island mills at a low cost by...
Hiring entire families
What were characteristics of working in the Lowell mills?
Long hours, dangerous conditions, regulated life for the workers, dangerous machines, low pay
Why did young women want to work at the Lowell mill?
Higher wages and chance to leave the country and live in the city
The Transportation Revolution can best be described as a period of...
Rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel
What was a result of the concept of interchangeable parts?
The mass production of goods
Textile manufacturers kept the costs of running a mill low by...
Hiring children and paying them very little
Companies built their factories closer to cities and transportation centers in the mid-1800s to...
Provide themselves with easier access to workers
Workers in the 1830s and 1840s began forming trade unions in order to...
Improve working conditions
How did technological developments during the Industrial Revolution enable people to build factories almost anywhere?
The shift to steam power meant factories no longer had to be built near streams, rivers or waterfalls
In the mid-1800s, companies began to mass-produce earlier inventions. What effect did this have on families?
They could buy items they could not afford in the past
In the 1870s, the demand for coal increased as the demand for steel grew because...
Coal was used in furnaces for steel production
The invention of the plow and the reaper helped the farming industry by...
Enabling farmers to plant and harvest huge crop fields
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