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.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

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.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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