Question | Answer |
The invention of new machines in Great Britain led to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. | ok
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One key element of Mass Production are interchangeable parts. | ok
| The Rhode Island System hired families to work in mills. | ok
| The Lowell System used young, unmarried women to work in water powered textile mills. | ok
| Trade Unions were formed by skilled workers to fight for better pay. | ok
| Development of steamboats and steam-powered trains led to the Transportation Revolution. | ok
| Coal replaced wood/timber as the main fuel source for steam engines. | ok
| Morse Code was sent over telegraph wires to communicate at long distances. | ok
| John Deere (steel plow) and Cyrus McCormick (Mechanical Reaper) improve farming and crop yields. | ok
| Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin led to a boom in the cotton industry and in the slave trade between states. | ok
| The South also grew corn, wheat, sugarcane, and tobacco. | ok
| About one-third of Southern families owned slaves. | ok
| Slaves were viewed as property, not people, in the South. | ok
| Field Work for slaves was hard work, while house slaves received better foods and clothing. | ok
| Most slaves feared separation from their families more than physical punishment. | ok
| Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831 is the most violent slave revolt in U.S. History. | ok |