The Industrial Age

The purpose of a spinning jenny was to increase the speed of textile production. streamline the production of cotton. produce more power to run machines. improve the quality of soil on farms.

increase the speed of textile production.

James Watt played an important role in the Industrial Revolution by developing a process to make textiles efficiently. making steam engines a reliable power source. inventing the steamboat to carry goods and people. encouraging the growth of cottage industries.

making steam engines a reliable power source.

Which of these developments helped launch the Industrial Revolution? Choose two answers. Demand for goods increased. More families produced their own food. Populations grew rapidly. Many people moved back to rural areas. Landowners hired more workers.

- Demand for goods increased - Populations grew rapidly

Which of these statements describe life after the Agricultural Revolution? Choose three answers. Most farmland was controlled by the wealthy. People moved to cities to find work. Farms produced fewer crops. More people lived and worked in rural areas. Landowners put enclosures around land.

- Most farmland was controlled by the wealthy. - People moved to cities to find work. - Landowners put enclosures around land.

before the Agricultural Revolution, much of England's farmland was __________. enclosed common under the control of the wealthy highly efficient in crop production.

Common

The cotton gin was invented by Robert Fulton. Henry Ford. James Watt. Eli Whitney.

Eli Whitney

What role did crop rotation play in the Agricultural Revolution? It enabled farmers to plant many new types of crops. It allowed farmers to share crops with one another. It introduced new machines to plant and harvest crops. It helped restore nutrients to the soil so crops grew better.

It helped restore nutrients to the soil so crops grew better.

What was the most important role textiles played in the Industrial Revolution? Mass-produced textiles meant that workers had more and better clothing. Industrialization of the textile industry led to more demand for cotton. Development of textile factories made domestic textile production obsolete. Machines invented to mass-produce textiles led to other inventions.

Machines invented to mass-produce textiles led to other inventions.

What is the most likely reason the Agricultural Revolution caused a population increase? Wealthy landowners could afford to have many children. More and better food allowed people to be healthy and well fed. Tenant farmers were able to settle down and have families. Many people moved to cities in search of jobs.

More and better food allowed people to be healthy and well fed.

What started the modern Agricultural Revolution? new types of crops improved farming methods greater demand for food more fertile soil

improved farming methods

How would life have been different in the 1800s if the steam locomotive had not been invented? Products would have been more expensive. Locomotives would have used wood or coal. Most goods would have been transported by wagon. Most goods would have been transported by steamboat.

Products would have been more expensive.

During the Agricultural Revolution, what was the main advantage of tenant farming rather than moving to the city for work? Tenant farmers could use a skill they already had rather than starting over. The future lay in farming instead of in the types of jobs people could find in cities. Landowners gave tenant farmers large plots of land for their personal use. Tenant farmers managed other workers but did not have to do manual labor.

Tenant farmers could use a skill they already had rather than starting over.

Which describes the connection between a mechanical loom and a cotton gin? The gin was invented first to increase textile production, and then the loom produced more cotton. The loom and the gin were invented at the same time to improve textile production. The loom and the gin were invented at the same time to improve cotton production. The loom was invented first to increase textile production, and then the gin produced more cotton.

The loom was invented first to increase textile production, and then the gin produced more cotton.

What is the most likely reason that the steamboat was developed soon after the steam locomotive? The steamboat was useful was transporting goods and people, unlike the locomotive. The steamboat used the same technology as the locomotive. The steamboat was practical only in England, which is an island. The steamboat used more efficient technology.

The steamboat used the same technology as the locomotive.

How did steam locomotives lower the cost of transporting raw materials and finished goods? They cost nothing to run because they ran on steam. They could transport many materials or goods at once. They were uncomplicated and inexpensive to build. They were safe and cut the chance of costly accidents.

They could transport many materials or goods at once.

Prices for products became more affordable as a result of new forms of __________, which got things to market faster and cheaper. agriculture machinery textiles transportation

Transportation

The excerpt is from The History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, by Edward Baines. A great number of streams . . . furnish water-power adequate to turn many hundred mills: they afford the element of water, indispensable for scouring, bleaching, printing, dyeing, and other processes of manufacture: and when collected in their larger channels, or employed to feed canals, they supply a superior inland navigation, so important for the transit of raw materials and merchandise. According to the excerpt, in what ways did water help England's industrial boom? Water supplied power and a means of transportation. Water helped people build hundreds of mills. Water helped people trade goods with nations overseas. Water enabled people to create raw materials.

Water supplied power and a means of transportation.

The Agricultural Revolution helped spark the Industrial Revolution by increasing the amount of food produced and by increasing the cost of agricultural products. decreasing the cost of agricultural products. increasing the number of farmworkers. decreasing the number of farmworkers.

decreasing the number of farmworkers.

An effect of the steamboat's popularity was that fewer people traveled by rail. steam locomotives became less popular. people began to build canals in the United States and Europe. more people began to travel between the United States and Europe.

people began to build canals in the United States and Europe.

Before the Agricultural Revolution, many people lived in rural areas because they could grow food on small areas of land. nearby farms produced plenty of food. they could grow crops quickly and efficiently. wealthy landowners gave them jobs on farms.

they could grow food on small areas of land.