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Chapter 9 : Life in the Industrial Age

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What basic education did schools teach by the late 1800's?

a)

Teachers taught how to cook and clean

b)

Teachers taught reading, writing, math, and the importance of being disciplined, punctual, obedient and patriotic

c)

There were no schools

d)

Teachers taught whatever they wanted

2.
Henry Bessemer's contribution to industrialization was to 
a)
create the first electric motor
b)
invent dynamite
c)
build the first internal combustion engine
d)
patent a new steelmaking process
3.

John D. Rockefeller was associated with

a)

The petroleum industry

b)

The Trans-SIberian Railroad

c)

Commercial Air Travel

d)

The steelmaking process

4.

Why do you think mostly middle-class women were involved in campaigns?

a)

They didn't need to work. They had time to spend on charitable services and campaigning.

b)

Women wanted to stop animal cruelty.

c)

They were involved in campaigns because they were most likely a factory worker.

d)

None of the above.

5.

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first woman's rights convention held in

a)

Newton, NJ

b)

Seneca, Wyoming

c)

Seneca, New York

d)

Trenton, New Jersey

6.
What popular concept idealized women and the home?
a)
cult of domesticity
b)
temperance movement
c)
social gospel
d)
Social Darwinism
7.

What did some critics of women's suffrage claim?

a)

everyone should be able to vote

b)

women needed to be protected from politics

c)

women were too emotional to vote responsbily

d)

B and C

8.
John D. Rockefeller was associated with 
a)
the steelmaking business
b)
the petroleum industry
c)
the Trans-Siberian Railroad
d)
commercial airline travel
9.
What was the main reason for Europe's great population growth in the 1800s?
a)
families had more children
b)
people moved to the cities
c)
farmers increased food production
d)
the death rate fell
10.
A pioneer of hospital care, safety, and hygiene was
a)
Robert Koch
b)
Florence Nightingale
c)
Louis Pasteur
d)
Louis Sullivan
11.
How did workers respond to harsh conditions of industrial life?
a)
they quit their jobs and moved to farms
b)
they froze the wages of unskilled workers
c)
they formed unions and mutual-aid societies
d)
they hired armed guards and police to protect themselves
12.
What popular concept idealized women and the home?
a)
cult of domesticity
b)
temperance movement
c)
social gospel
d)
Social Darwinism
13.
To explain the long, slow process of evolution Charles Darwin proposed the theory of 
a)
Social Darwinism
b)
natural domesticity
c)
imperialism
d)
natural selection
14.
French chemist who showed that tiny germs can cause disease
a)
Louis Pasteur
b)
Claude Monet
c)
Alfred Nobel
d)
Guglielmo Marconi
15.
This individual used his fortune made from inventing dynamite to fund awards that are still given today
a)
Claude Monet
b)
Ludwig von Beethoven
c)
Alfred Nobel
d)
Louis Pasteur
16.

Generated electricity that powered the machines.

a)

spinning jenny

b)

dynamo

c)

windmill

d)

cotton gin

17.

An association to fix prices, set up production quotas, or control markets.

a)

monopoly

b)

trust

c)

cartel

d)

corporation

18.

Identical components that could be used in place of one another

a)

replacement parts

b)

identical parts

c)

similar parts

d)

interchangeable parts

19.

Rebuilding of poor areas of a city that took place in Paris in the 1850s

a)

urban renewal

b)

city landscaping

c)

gentrification

d)

modernization

20.

Joseph Lister discovered how ____________ prevented infection.

a)

anesthesia

b)

aspirin

c)

microbes

d)

antiseptics

21.

The unscientific belief that one racial group is superior to another

a)

prejudice

b)

superiority complex

c)

racism

d)

racial arrogance

22.

Reform movement concerned with women's voting rights

a)

temperance movement

b)

women's suffrage

c)

labor movement

d)

abolition

23.

A campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages

a)

suffrage

b)

labor movement

c)

temperance movement

d)

voting rights

24.

Crusaded against slavery before organizing a movement for women's rights

a)

Florence Nightingale

b)

Robert Koch

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Frederick Douglass

25.

A new method of production that moves along a belt from one work station to the next

a)

Assembly line

b)

factory

c)

enclosure

d)

interchangeable parts

26.

Businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of a stock

a)

small business

b)

industry

c)

corporation

d)

monopoly

27.

To get needed capital, owners sold shares or ______________ to investors.

a)

money

b)

goods

c)

stock

d)

inventions

28.

Argued that all forms of life, including human beings, had evolved into their present state over millions of years.

a)

Alfred Nobel

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Florence Nightingale

d)

Charles Darwin

29.

Derogatory term applied to a powerful, wealthy industrialist, who monopolized the railroads, the steel industry and oil industry

a)

robber baron

b)

captain of industry

c)

CEO

d)

innovator

30.

The first European country outside fo Britain to industialize was

a)

United States

b)

Italy

c)

Belgium

d)

Germany

31.

Scientist who developed modern atomic theory.

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

John Dalton

c)

Joseph Lister

d)

Louis Pasteur

32.

Besides Britain, These countries had abundant supplies of coal, iron, and other resources

a)

Belgium

b)

Germany

c)

United States

d)

France

e)

All of the Above

33.

How did electricity change industry and daily life?

a)

Factories no longer needed steam engines or water sources to power them

b)

Production decreased

c)

Production increased

d)

A and C

34.

How did technological advances in transportation and communications affect the Industrial revolution?

a)

Advances in transportation and communication changed the way people lived.

b)

They can also communicate nationally and internally by telegraph, telephone and

radio.

c)

People could travel faster by steamship, railroad, car and airplanes

d)

All of the Above

35.

Hospitals were dangerous places in the early 1800's because

a)

surgery was performed with dirty instruments in dank(damp) rooms

b)

advances in transportation and communication changed the way people lived

c)

hospitals were clean, and most surgeons sterilized their instruments

d)

surgeons washed their hands before operating

36.

Why did more children attend school in the late 1800s than before?

a)

Population growth

b)

growing number of middle-class families could afford to send their children to school

c)

fewer children needed to work on farms or in their parents' shops

d)

B and C

37.

Technology helped industry to expand because of

a)

Advances in communication so that people could communicate nationally and internally by telegraph, telephone and radio

b)

Advances in transportation so that people could travel faster by steamship, railroad, car and airplane

c)

inventions like the assembly line that made production faster and cheaper

d)

All of the Above

38.

How did harsh living and working conditions in industrialized nations encourage compassionate and charitable feelings?

a)

harsh working and living conditions pushed for reforms for the working poor, and religious organizations were one way to do that

b)

the social gospel urged Christians to stay away from social service

c)

They did not encourage compassionate and charitable feelings

d)

It promoted social darwinism

39.

Between 1800 and 1900, the population of Europe more than doubled because

a)

the death rate fell

b)

nutrition improved

c)

of medical advancements

d)

public sanitation improved

e)

all of the above

40.

What was the purpose of the social gospel?

a)

To provide Christians an opportunity to socialize

b)

To help improve the lives of the rich

c)

It encouraged Christians to perform social services, such as campaigning for reforms in housing, healthcare, and education

d)

None of the above