The document is a study guide for a history exam covering innovations of the Industrial Revolution. It includes a chart to fill in with key inventors and innovations. There are also true/false statements to correct if false, and blanks to fill in about topics like factors of production, mechanization, and the effects of inventions on different industries.

1. Student__________________________________class____date________
Ryan’s WHistory Ch 13.1
Terms:
>enclosure movement (352)
>crop rotation (352)
>replaceable (352)
>factors of production (353)
>mechanization (354)
>factory system (354)
>vulcanization (355)
>tariff (358)
Complete the chart on the following innovations:
built first profitable steam boat
developed vulcanization
invented machine to clean seeds from cotton
invented tool to plant seeds in straight rows
patented the modern steam engine
Mark each statement T if it is true or F if it is false. If FALSE – correct the statement on
line provided.
1. The enclosure movement meant that lands were fenced of into small plots.
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____ 2. When farmers rotated crops they left fields unplowed so that the soil could
rebuild it nutrients.
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____ 3. Land, money, equipment, and labor are the main factors of production.
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____ 4. No inventor could improve on the hand-powered loom.
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____ 5. Steel was important because inventors could use it to make machines that
could withstand high steam pressure.
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____ 6. The steam engine improved land transportation but had no effect on water
transportation.
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2. ____ 7. The Bessemer process was a cheap way of producing gas for streetlights.
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____ 8. The telegraph never became a practical communication device.
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____ 9. Charles Goodyear’s vulcanization process is the basis of today’s rubber
industry.
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____10. Great Britain was the last of the major European countries to become
industrialized.
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Fill in the blanks:
1. __________________________ introduced the system of crop rotation
into England.
2. By the 1800s, many _____________________________ had been
forced off the land and moved to the cities where they became a large
source of labor.
3. Richard Arkwright’s spinning mill of the 1780s was the start of the
modern _______________________________________.
4. Because of Eli Whitney’s ______________________________, the
southern United States became the major cotton producing center of
the world.
5. Drawbacks to using _____________________________ were that it
was not reliable and could not be moved from place to place.
6. Locomotives and steamboats were both powered by
___________________.
7. Morse code was a system of _____________________ used to
transmit the alphabet.
8. The Italian scientist Alessandro Volta made the first
____________________ which provided a steady source of electric
power.
9. The country that led the Industrial Revolution was
______________________.
10 France imposed ___________________________ on foreign goods
to protect its own industries.