WorksheetsA Growing Economy The Industrial Revolution
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
a)
Technology
b)
Interchangeable parts
c)
Patents
d)
Capitalism
2.
A machine that removes seeds from cotton fiber.
a)
Cotton Gin
b)
Interchangeable parts
c)
Patents
d)
Capitalism
3.
A part of a machine or devise that can be replaced by another, identical part.
a)
Cotton Gin
b)
Interchangeable parts
c)
Patents
d)
Capitalism
4.
Sole legal rights to and invention and its profits.
a)
Cotton Gin
b)
Interchangeable parts
c)
Patents
d)
Capitalism
5.
The system that money is used to create wealth.
a)
Cotton Gin
b)
Interchangeable parts
c)
Patents
d)
Capitalism
6.
The industrial revolution began in what industry
a)
Computer
b)
Textile
c)
Farming
d)
Shipping
7.
Factories were built with the help of ______________.
a)
Shippers
b)
Farmers
c)
Capitalist
d)
Brick layers
8.
Factory machines replaced what?
a)
Farm machines
b)
The Coton Gin
c)
Human workers
d)
Hand tools
9.
Who worked in factories for long hours under difficult and dangerous conditions.
a)
Adults and child laborers
b)
Work animals
c)
Only women
d)
Only men
10.
What replaced farming as main form of work.
a)
Rock collecting
b)
Shipping
c)
Manufacturing
d)
Military careers
11.
What areas were most factories built?
a)
New England States
b)
Southern States
c)
Middle States
d)
States West of the Mississippi River
12.
What was used to power the machines in the factories?
a)
Water
b)
Horses
c)
Coal
d)
Gasoline
13.
Which of these reasons was NOT a reason why factories were built in New England?
a)
Plenty of waterpower
b)
Many ships and access
to the ocean
to the ocean
c)
A willing labor force
d)
They had plenty of animals for labor
14.
Where did the idea and plans for manufacturing come from?
a)
Europe
b)
China
c)
Spain
d)
Egypt
15.
Who memorized plans for spinning machines and brought them to America.
a)
Samuel Slater
b)
Eli Whitney
c)
Francis Cabot Lowell
d)
Samuel Clements
16.
Who built a textile mill that combined spinning and weaving.
a)
Francis Cabot Lowell
b)
Samuel Slater
c)
Samuel Clements
d)
Eli Whitney
17.
Who invented the cotton gin.
a)
Francis Cabot Lowell
b)
Samuel Slater
c)
Samuel Clements
d)
Eli Whitney
18.
Who invented the method of interchangeable parts?
a)
Francis Cabot Lowell
b)
Samuel Slater
c)
Samuel Clements
d)
Eli Whitney
19.
Which of these reasons was not a benefit of interchangeable parts.
a)
sped up production
b)
made repairs easy
c)
could use lower-paid,
less-skilled workers
less-skilled workers
d)
Added more animals for labor
20.
This new system led to ________________; the rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical objects.
a)
mass production
b)
invention of the automobile
c)
invention of the airplane
d)
invention of the steam boat
21.
What made it possible for one worker to clean 50 pounds of cotton per day?
a)
Slave labor
b)
Animal labor
c)
Cotton gin
d)
Child labor
22.
America wanted to end slavery in the first 20 years of its existence. What invention caused slavery to stay longer?
a)
Invention of the Cotton Gin
b)
The slaves wanted to stay slaves
c)
The invention of the steam boat
d)
THe invention of moveable parts
23.
The cotton gin changed the South in four ways, which one is not one of them?
a)
Triggered a vast move West
b)
Cotton became king
c)
Native Americans were given there land back
d)
Slavery became an even more valuable source of labor
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