WorksheetsChapter 9 : Life in the Industrial Age
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
What basic education did schools teach by the late 1800's?
Teachers taught how to cook and clean
Teachers taught reading, writing, math, and the importance of being disciplined, punctual, obedient and patriotic
There were no schools
Teachers taught whatever they wanted
John D. Rockefeller was associated with
The petroleum industry
The Trans-SIberian Railroad
Commercial Air Travel
The steelmaking process
Why do you think mostly middle-class women were involved in campaigns?
They didn't need to work. They had time to spend on charitable services and campaigning.
Women wanted to stop animal cruelty.
They were involved in campaigns because they were most likely a factory worker.
None of the above.
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first woman's rights convention held in
Newton, NJ
Seneca, Wyoming
Seneca, New York
Trenton, New Jersey
What did some critics of women's suffrage claim?
everyone should be able to vote
women needed to be protected from politics
women were too emotional to vote responsbily
B and C
Generated electricity that powered the machines.
spinning jenny
dynamo
windmill
cotton gin
An association to fix prices, set up production quotas, or control markets.
monopoly
trust
cartel
corporation
Identical components that could be used in place of one another
replacement parts
identical parts
similar parts
interchangeable parts
Rebuilding of poor areas of a city that took place in Paris in the 1850s
urban renewal
city landscaping
gentrification
modernization
Joseph Lister discovered how ____________ prevented infection.
anesthesia
aspirin
microbes
antiseptics
The unscientific belief that one racial group is superior to another
prejudice
superiority complex
racism
racial arrogance
Reform movement concerned with women's voting rights
temperance movement
women's suffrage
labor movement
abolition
A campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
suffrage
labor movement
temperance movement
voting rights
Crusaded against slavery before organizing a movement for women's rights
Florence Nightingale
Robert Koch
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglass
A new method of production that moves along a belt from one work station to the next
Assembly line
factory
enclosure
interchangeable parts
Businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of a stock
small business
industry
corporation
monopoly
To get needed capital, owners sold shares or ______________ to investors.
money
goods
stock
inventions
Argued that all forms of life, including human beings, had evolved into their present state over millions of years.
Alfred Nobel
Louis Pasteur
Florence Nightingale
Charles Darwin
Derogatory term applied to a powerful, wealthy industrialist, who monopolized the railroads, the steel industry and oil industry
robber baron
captain of industry
CEO
innovator
The first European country outside fo Britain to industialize was
United States
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Scientist who developed modern atomic theory.
Charles Darwin
John Dalton
Joseph Lister
Louis Pasteur
Besides Britain, These countries had abundant supplies of coal, iron, and other resources
Belgium
Germany
United States
France
All of the Above
How did electricity change industry and daily life?
Factories no longer needed steam engines or water sources to power them
Production decreased
Production increased
A and C
How did technological advances in transportation and communications affect the Industrial revolution?
Advances in transportation and communication changed the way people lived.
They can also communicate nationally and internally by telegraph, telephone and
radio.
People could travel faster by steamship, railroad, car and airplanes
All of the Above
Hospitals were dangerous places in the early 1800's because
surgery was performed with dirty instruments in dank(damp) rooms
advances in transportation and communication changed the way people lived
hospitals were clean, and most surgeons sterilized their instruments
surgeons washed their hands before operating
Why did more children attend school in the late 1800s than before?
Population growth
growing number of middle-class families could afford to send their children to school
fewer children needed to work on farms or in their parents' shops
B and C
Technology helped industry to expand because of
Advances in communication so that people could communicate nationally and internally by telegraph, telephone and radio
Advances in transportation so that people could travel faster by steamship, railroad, car and airplane
inventions like the assembly line that made production faster and cheaper
All of the Above
How did harsh living and working conditions in industrialized nations encourage compassionate and charitable feelings?
harsh working and living conditions pushed for reforms for the working poor, and religious organizations were one way to do that
the social gospel urged Christians to stay away from social service
They did not encourage compassionate and charitable feelings
It promoted social darwinism
Between 1800 and 1900, the population of Europe more than doubled because
the death rate fell
nutrition improved
of medical advancements
public sanitation improved
all of the above
What was the purpose of the social gospel?
To provide Christians an opportunity to socialize
To help improve the lives of the rich
It encouraged Christians to perform social services, such as campaigning for reforms in housing, healthcare, and education
None of the above
