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Industrial Revolution

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Question 1

1.

Who built the first American spinning wheel?

Nat Turner

Gerald Ford

Samuel Slater

William Hartford

Question 2

2.

Who started the most famous textile mill that mostly employed young women?

Henry Cabot

Francis Cabot Lowell

Sir William Henry

Rutherford Hayes

Question 3

3.

Why was the industrial revolution the first time people in America needed clocks?

Question 4

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The telegraph led to the creation of a system of dots and dashes called

Morse Code

Tele-Code

Information Code 

Ripley Code

Question 5

5.

Pick one of the three steam power systems on page 176 and tell me who created it and in what year.

Question 6

6.

Who invented the cotton gin?

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Eli Whitney 

Patrick Henry

William Whitney

Question 7

7.

What is a negative effect of the creation of the cotton gin?

Question 8

8.

Tenant Farmers were very rich.

True

False

Question 9

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What year was the international slave trade abolished?

1797

1823

1853

1808

Question 10

10.

What happened in Virginia in 1831?

The Southampton Rebellion

The Lincoln Rebellion

Ford's Rebellion

Nat Turner's Rebellion