WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
What was the Industrial Revolution?
The industries set up after the French and American Revolutions.
The acceleration of technical and economic development that begun in Britain around1750.
Where all the poorly paid industrial workers finally stopped work and took up arms against their employers.
What was the "new" industry dominated by?
Machinery and manufacturing
Farms and Animals
Selling and Servicing
Which statement is the best summary of the economy prior to the Industrial Revolution in 1750?
Heavy manufacturing, lots of pollution
Water powered factories, some pollution
Based on agriculture, cottage industry
What "class" or "classes" did the Industrial Revolution create?
An urban middle class
A landowners class
An urban working class
Both A and C
What led to a population explosion in Britain?
A national health service was formed.
Better jobs and more money.
Soap, a better diet, and sanitation.
Improved health, fewer deaths.
Which areas of Britain grew most?
Countryside
Urban areas
Coastal ports
Wales
What industry saw the earliest benefit of innovations?
The use of canals for transportation.
The railroad system
The textile industry
The agricultural industry
The industry where work was done in the homes producing goods such as clothing and shoes was called
the Industrial Revolution
the cottage industry
the enclosure system
the factory system
This picture shows what problem of the factory system?
The lack of skilled workers
Unsafe working conditions
Unfair wages for women
Child labor
Prior to industrialization people lived
in suburbs.
in cities.
in tenements.
on farms.
The enclosure movement
forced people to move to towns.
fenced off land for the wool industry.
caused factories to shut down.
gave poor farmers more land.
A term for people who are looking to start a business is
entrepreneur
socialist
economist
communist
This picture shows
the factory system.
the cottage industry.
a middle class home.
a tenement.
Whose homes are reflected in this picture?
middle class
working class
aritstocrats
upper class
The Industrial Revolution impacted rural-to-urban migration by
causing people to give up farming and search for jobs in cities.
forcing people to migrate to new countries.
making people move closer to sources of water.
spreading industrialization across the European continent.
Which of the following does NOT describe the conditions in a typical early Industrial Revolution factory?
Dirty
Un-safe
Hot
Well-ventilated
During the Industrial Revolution farming improvements led the the privatizing and fencing off of land in Great Britain by Parliament, what was this called?
Suffrage Acts
Labor Acts
Enclosure Acts
Abolitionists Acts
Which of the following individuals invented the "improved" steam engine?
Henry Bessemer
Edward Jenner
Eli Whitney
James Watt
Why were children employed in the mines during the Industrial Revolution?
Because they earned more than men and women.
Because they easily fit in small spaces.
Because they needed to get an education underground.
Because they would be beaten if they didn't work there.
What do the flying shuttle, spinning jenny, spinning mule, and the water-powered loom all have in common?
They all enabled textiles to be mass produced for a cheaper price.
They enabled cottage industries to do more work at home.
They utilized steam to run the machines.
They were common sources of injury to workers in factories.
What fuel was used to power new transportation like the locomotive?
Coal
Gasoline
Water
Iron
What were three of the abundant natural resources Great Britain had that made it the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution?
People, coal, iron
Water, steel, people
Water,coal, iron ore
Coal, steel, iron ore
