Industrial Revolution Vocab Quiz

Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone

b

Thomas Edison

James Watt

Alexander Graham Bell

Eli Whitney

American inventor, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer. Created the Cotton Gin.

c

Eli Whitney

James Watt

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

18th-century inventor and instrument maker. He is best remembered for his improvements to the steam engine.

a

James Watt

Thomas Edison

Karl Marx

Eli Whitney

Exerted a tremendous influence on modern life, contributing inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, as well as improving the telegraph and telephone.

d

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Eli Whitney

Karl Marx

He worked primarily in the realm of political philosophy and was a famous advocate for communism. He cowrote The Communist Manifesto and was the author of Das Kapital, which together formed the basis of Marxism.

b

James Watt

Eli Whitney

Karl Marx

Thomas Edison

Manufacturing systems in which work-in-progress moves from station to station in a sequential fashion.

d

Steam Engine

Spinning Jenny

Cotton Gin

Assembly line

A machine that uses heat and steam pressure to create mechanical motion.

a

Assembly line

Spinning Jenny

Cotton Gin

Steam Engine

A machine that separates cotton seeds from cotton fiber.

c

Assembly line

Spinning Jenny

Steam Engine

Cotton Gin

A machine used for spinning wool or cotton.

b

Cotton Gin

Spinning Jenny

Steam Engine

Assembly line

A left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement.

b

Communism

Socialism

Laissez-faire

Marxism