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WorksheetsUnit 6 Industrialization and Immigration Review
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 20mins
Why did immigrants often live in neighborhoods with others from their homelands?
It was illegal to live anywhere else
They didn't want to be in the US
It made their adjustment to their new life easier
No other housing was avaliable
Where immigrants went to be processed and inspected if they arrived on the East Coast during the late 1800's.
Angel Island
The Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island
New York City
Where did many immigrants in the northeast work?
Fisherman
Ranches
Farms
Factories
What was the first thing immigrants saw when they arrived in the U.S.?
Angel Island
Statue of Liberty
Empire State Building
Central Park
Why was steel so important? What was it used for?
Used to make artillery and weapons
Cheap to import from China
It came from Minnesota
Strong. Used for bridges, railways, nails, & skyscrapers
What is Henry Ford famous for?
Made it easier to own companies & build corporations
It organized labor in the factories
Made products cheaper & quicker using the assembly line
Made communication easier
How was mass production of products a good thing?
Made it easier to own companies & build corporations
It organized labor in the factories
Made products cheaper & quicker
Made communication easier
A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.
Cartel
Corporation
Factory
Urbanization
Before the Industrial Revolution all products were created by
Factories
Hand
Slaves
Royalty
Why did people move to the cities during the Industrial revolution?
Jobs in factories
Jobs on the farm
Family
Friends
This machine was fueled by coal and was used to power boats and trains during the Industrial Revolution.
flying shuttle
steam engine
spinning jenny
cotton gin
The process of moving from a farming society, in which most goods are handmade, to a society where goods are manufactured by machines.
textile
economy
industrialization
technology
The Industrial Revolution describes a time when
people rejected socialism and began calling for capitalism.
people began to use the scientific method to find answers to their questions.
work done by machines in factories replaced work done by hand.
industrialized nations created overseas colonies.
In the late 1800s, one response of workers in factories to get their bosses to change unsafe working conditions was to
form labor unions.
move away from cities.
change jobs frequently.
take control of the government.
What invention increased the transportation of goods and people from the east coast to the west coast during the 1800's?
Telegraph
Cotton Gin
Transcontinental Railroad
Pony Express
Immigrants in the northeast lived in cities in crowded homes called
condos
townhouses
ranches
tenements
Someone who moves from one country to another looking for new opportunities, a better life, jobs, or to escape poverty is a(n)
refugee
immigrant
slave
foreman
Your teacher asks you to do a report on what it was like to work in a factory as a child. Which source would be the most helpful?
a text book
a painting
diary of a child working in a factory
a fiction book on the industrial revolution
Joey just moved to the U.S. from Italy. In order to best assimilate, fit in, to his new community he should
learn English
get a job in business
only make Italian friends
move to a new neighborhood where they only speak Italian
Which fossil fuel saw an increase in demand due to the steam engine?
iron
steel
coal
gold
Samuel Morse created the ____________ which used electric wires to send messages and helped people communicate across the continent.
pony express
telegraph
postal service
telephone
Immigrants experienced all of the following negative effects when coming to the U.S. EXCEPT
better job opportunities
low pay
poor living conditions
prejudice (judgement)
Child labor increased due to the growth of
farms
big businesses
the need for coal
handmade goods
The MOST IMPORTANT result of the Industrial Revolution is
goods went from being made by machines to being made by hand.
goods were produced quicker and cheaper.
goods went from being shipped by train to being shipped by the pony express
goods were produced slower and more expensive
All of the following are reasons Irish immigrants came to the U.S. EXCEPT
religious freedom
escape diseases
escape starvation from the potato famine
they believed the U.S. was a symbol of freedom and they could own their own land
Chinese Immigrants came to the U.S.
to escape the Germans
to possibly get rich mining gold in California during the Gold Rush
because they thought America was a symbol of freedom
religious freedom
The process of fitting many parts together to create one product is a (n)
labor union
tenement
assembly line
telegraph
If a factory owner agrees to help a factory worker and the factory worker agrees to work for the factory owner after having a discussion, they came to a
conflict
debate
argument
compromise
Cindy could either go to work for low wages in order to support her family, or go on strike against her factory owner to get better wages and working conditions. She chose to keep working for lower wages to support her family. What is her opportunity cost?
getting better wages and working conditions
going to work in the mill
money for her family
low wages
