Industrial Revolution Quiz 1

Urbanization is defined as ........

• The process by which people migrate from urban to rural communities, the opposite of urbanization.

• The process of making an area more urban.

• The process of migration to a new area.

• The process of moving to a new country.

Major urban areas (cities)  in America are...

• Kent County, Texas

  - Population density: 89.53 people

  Custer County, Idaho

  - Population density: 88.76 people / 100 square miles - Population: 4,368

• Canada

  Mexico

  Dominican Republic

• New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA19,216.18

  Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA13,214.

  Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI9,458.54

• North Carolina

  New Mexico

  Missouri

Rural is defined as.....

• In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.

• Visiting a new place.

• Where people go to play sports.

• The process of making an area more urban.

Define Industrialization..

• The growth of cities.

• The movement of people to different states.

• A time when farms expanded.

• The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.

What was the Industrial Revolution?

• Changes and advancements in government

• Changes and advancements in education and science

• Changes and advancements in religion

• Changes and advancements in the production of goods and the lives of people

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• Massachusetts

• France

• England

• Ireland

Most of the jobs that were created as a result of the Industrial Revolution were located in which region?

• Southeast

• Midwest

• Northwest

• Northeast

What factor led many young women to move to cities during the nineteenth century?

• the growing availability of factory jobs

• the constant fear of an influenza outbreak

• the declining interest in westward expansion

• the educational opportunities at free universities

Which innovation allowed factories to build away from water and led to more efficient machines?

• power loom

• spinning jenny

• steam engine

• cars

Check all of the characteristics that describe the changes that took place during the Industrial Revolution.

• movement of people from farming villages into cities

• movement of people from cities into farming villages

• the use of machines to produce more goods and products

• the shift from making items by machine to making items by hand

• the shift from making items by hand to making items by machine