Industrial Revolution Quiz (2025)

Which of the following correctly describes the working conditions most factory workers encountered? (Choose the three correct answers)

• strictly controlled daily schedules

• low wages

• short working hours

• dangerous work environments

• lack of housing

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which group was focused on eliminating slavery?

• politicians

• abolitionists

• missionaries

• transcendentalists

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Who believed education should be made public and free for all children?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Horace Mann

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Dorothea Dix

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Who dedicated their lives to helping the treatment of those in prison and the mentally ill?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Horace Mann

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Dorothea Dix

Which of these describes a person who followed a philosophy to throw away the conformity of society and be more individualistic?

• suffragist

• abolitionist

• expansionist

• transcendentalists

The factory system in the U.S. was introduced by

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of these statements about the Transportation Revolution is true?

• The Transportation Revolution led to reduced shipping costs and increased shipping times.

• The Transportation Revolution was made possible by the invention of the steamboat and the airplane.

• The Transportation Revolution resulted in increased domestic trade and decreased international trade.

• The Transportation Revolution enabled goods, people, and information to travel farther and faster than before.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

By 1860, which of these was the most efficient way to move goods in the North?

• by railroad

• by steamboat

• by canal boat

• by stagecoach

Eventually, what generated the power to run the machines in the mills?

• Steam

• Water

• Electricity

• Horses

The Erie Canal connected

• Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean

• Great Lakes and Mississippi River

• The Atlantic Ocean with the Ohio River

• The Ohio River and New Orleans