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Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 1hrs 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented the cotton gin?

a)

Elias Howe

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Thomas Edison

2.

What was the "nickname" for an engine?

a)

gin

b)

ginny

c)

power mot

d)

motto

3.

What does annex mean?

a)

to separate

b)

opposite

c)

to join with

d)

a business

4.

Supply, according to the "Supply and Demand" section, is....

a)

when everyone can buy whatever supplies they want

b)

how much people want to buy it.

c)

when you are able to make economic choices

d)

the amount of a product that a business has for sale.

5.

How many pounds could a cotton gin process in a day?

a)

nearly 55 pounds

b)

nearly 45 pounds

c)

nearly 60 pounds

d)

nearly 75 pounds

6.

Demand is how much people want to buy it.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

I don't know

7.

Freedom of Choice?

a)

a business has the right to keep the leftover money

b)

All people can choose for themselves how to earn, spend and save their money.

c)

The owner of a business controls and is responsible for his business at all times.

d)

People have the right to own a property like businesses or homes.

8.

The time period of GREAT change in the US was know as the...

a)

The Industrial Revolution

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Era of Innovation

d)

Era of Inventions

9.

The industrial Revolution was a time when hundreds of new inventions and products...

a)

made life easier for people

b)

made life harder for people

c)

made too much clothes

10.

People went from working on farms to living in cities because...

a)

the city was more fun

b)

there was more WORK opportunity in the city, like factories.

c)

they were shutting down all farms

11.

Who built the power looms and what did these machines do?

a)

Eli Whitney, and these machines could turn cotton fibers into cloth

b)

Robert Fulton, and these machines powered the factories

c)

Rudolf Diesel, these machines powered the factories

d)

Francis Lowell and his partners and these machines could easily turn cotton fibers into cloth

12.

What is owner control?

a)

All people can choose for themselves of how to earn, spend, and save their money.

b)

The owner of a business controls and is responsible for his business.

c)

People have the right to own homes or businesses

d)

Businesses can keep leftover money.

13.

A free enterprise system can be called a free trade economy or capitalism.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Cyrus Field

d)

Nikola Tesla

15.

Factories would NOT pollute the environment because they were burning coal and oil.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Many believe that the industrial revolution did not cause an increase in slavery.

a)

True

b)

False