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Industrial Revolution Vocab

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres.

a)

Cloth

b)

Fabric

c)

Textile

d)

Yarn

2.

First legislation enacted by the United States Congress (1890) to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition.

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

c)

18th Amendment

d)

Plessy V. Ferguson

3.

A change to the United States Constitution establishing the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states.

a)

17th Amendment

b)

Implementation

c)

18th Amendment

d)

Monopoly

4.

A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices.

a)

Filthy Rich

b)

Suffragette

c)

Immigrant

d)

Robber Baron

5.

The presence of a great number of very different people in a very limited space - most of them are strangers to each other.

a)

Rural life

b)

Salt life

c)

Urban life

d)

Country life

6.

The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

a)

Free Trade

b)

Monopoly

c)

Risk

d)

Democracy

7.

A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.

a)

Deplete

b)

Recession

c)

Convert

d)

Strike

8.

The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.

a)

Acceleration

b)

Anticipation

c)

Prohibition

d)

Recession

9.

(of a group, person, or idea) favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.

a)

Muckraker

b)

Progressive Party

c)

Scalliwag

d)

Republican

10.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

a)

The Bull Moose Party

b)

19th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

11.

A long and severe recession in an economy or market.

a)

Free Market System

b)

Industry

c)

Trust

d)

Depression

12.

A party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.

a)

Progressive Party

b)

Political Machine

c)

Prohibition

d)

Robber Baron

13.

A woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest.

a)

Carpetbagger

b)

Muckraker

c)

Robber Baron

d)

Suffragettes

14.

A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

a)

Horizontal Integration

b)

Assembly Line

c)

Industry

d)

Vertical Intergration

15.

Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

a)

Corruption

b)

Graft

c)

Tammany Hall

d)

Monopoly

16.

Prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages.

a)

20th Amendment

b)

Civil Rights act of 1866

c)

A Contract

d)

18th Amendment

17.

The employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.

a)

Indentured Servant

b)

Immigrant

c)

Child Labor

d)

Temperance

18.

A large grouping of business interests with significant market power, which may be embodied as a corporation or as a group of corporations that cooperate with one another in various ways.

a)

Industry

b)

Trust

c)

Monopoly

d)

Political Machine

19.

An American statesman, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

William McKinley

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

Rutherford B. Hayes

20.

Reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.

a)

Carpet baggers

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Suffragists

d)

Robberbarons

21.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment.

a)

18th Amendment

b)

Prohibition

c)

16th Amendment

d)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

22.

A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.

a)

Urban Sprawl

b)

Sky Scrapper

c)

Industrialization

d)

Tenement

23.

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

a)

Robber Baron

b)

Immigrant

c)

Suffragist

d)

Muckraker

24.

An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.

a)

Settlement House

b)

Mansion

c)

Sky scrapper

d)

Tenement

25.

A group of manufacturers or businesses that produce a particular kind of goods or services.

a)

Innovation

b)

Industry

c)

Agriculture

d)

Factory