Industrial Revolution Quiz

What term describes a period of time in the late 18th and 19th century when rapid development of industries took place with the introduction of machines?

• Industrial Revolution

• Consumerism

• Mechanization

• Urban

What is the term for the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives them of their childhood and interferes with their ability to attend regular school?

• Urban

• Child Labour

• Working Class

• Strike

What term refers to an industry where the manufacture of products is primarily in homes by people using their own tools and equipment?

• Urban

• Mechanization

• Cottage Industry

• Industrialists

What is the term for an engine that uses steam to produce power, and was made practical and efficient by James Watt in 1781?

• Consumerism

• Steam engines

• Division of Labour

• Strike

What term describes ideas about the economy of a country relying on people to buy more things to keep industry and the economy strong?

• Industrial Revolution

• Consumerism

• Mechanization

• Urban

What term refers to the introduction of machines or work that involves a lot of machines?

• Division of Labour

• Mechanization

• Industrialists

• Strike

What term refers to people who own the industries?

• Urban

• Working Class

• Industrialists

• Rural

What term refers to an area or region outside of town or in the countryside?

• Urban

• Rural

• Strike

• Working Class

What term refers to when each worker has a specific task or role they perform?

• Division of Labour

• Strike

• Urban

• Mechanization

What term describes when a large group of workers refuses to work, which was mostly illegal during the Industrial Revolution?

• Strike

• Urban

• Rural

• Working Class