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Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The cottage industry system involved manufacturing...

a)

In the home

b)

Of steam engines

c)

Luxury goods

d)

In small factories

2.

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

a)

Dangerous working conditions

b)

Low wages

c)

Safe working conditions

d)

Widespread pollution

3.

Any fabric that is woven (by machine or hand) is called -

a)

Technology

b)

Economy

c)

Textile

d)

Rollerblade

4.

A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.

a)

School

b)

Cooperation

c)

Urbanization

d)

Factory system

5.

This machine separated the seed from cotton fibers.

a)

Spinning Jenny

b)

Spinning wheel

c)

Cotton gin

d)

Steam Engine

6.

Mass production led to:

a)

Products being more superior in quality

b)

Laborers received higher wages

c)

Goods became less expensive

d)

Industries moved to rural areas

7.

How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?

a)

Made the crime rate decrease

b)

Make the cities cleaner and safer

c)

Led to an increase in farm workers

d)

Led to an increase in population in the cities

8.

What was the purpose of labor unions?

a)

Negotiate as a group for bigger factories

b)

Negotiate as a group for better working conditions

c)

Negotiate as a group for a political revolution

d)

Negotiate as a group for a social revolution

9.

When workers in a union refuse to work until conditions improve

a)

Urbanization

b)

Strike

c)

Factory System

d)

Labor Union

10.

One effect of the cotton gin was that ____.

a)

farmers could plant more cotton in limited space

b)

the seeds of the cotton plant no longer stuck to the fibers

c)

the need for enslaved labor decreased

d)

workers could process more cotton

11.

Who invented the cotton gin?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Jim Morse

c)

James Watt

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

12.

Where were most factories built before the steam engine was invented?

a)

in the mountains

b)

anywhere

c)

in the desert

d)

along rivers

13.

Which 2 natural resources were the backbone of the Industrial Revolution?

a)

cotton and tobacco

b)

oil and natural gas

c)

coal and iron

d)

wood and peat

14.

Why were railroads so important during this time?

a)

they moved goods more quickly and less expensively over greater distances

b)

people could ride on railroads to get to their jobs in another city

c)

they were fun to ride on to go visit family in other states

d)

it was cheaper than flying

15.

Who invented the steamboat?

a)

Francis Cabot Lowell

b)

Robert Fulton

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Samuel Morse

16.

Which of the following people was a transcendentalist who was jailed for not paying a tax that would support war?

a)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Henry David Thoreau

17.

What religious movement led to the other reform movements?

a)

The First Great Awakening

b)

The Reformation

c)

The Second Great Awakening

d)

The Renaissance

18.

In which essay does Thoreau propose that people should examine whether they should obey unjust laws?

a)

Nature

b)

Civil Disobedience

c)

Self-Reliance

d)

Walden

19.

The Transcendentalists believed in self-reliance and free thought.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

The immigrant population that primarily helped build the transcontinental railroad came from

a)

Chinese

b)

Irish

c)

Mexican

d)

French

21.

What was the abolition movement?

a)

Movement to abolish sales and consumption (drinking) of alcoholic beverages.

b)

Reform movement to end slavery.

c)

Reform Movement to improve education.

d)

Immigrants who came to America to build the railroad.

22.

Who was Horace Mann?

a)

Leader of the Education reform movement.

b)

Leader of the evil empire.

c)

Leader of Abolitionism.

d)

Leader of the Temperance Movement.

23.

Labor reform was

a)

A movement to end slavery, also known as abolition.

b)

A movement to improve prison labor to make sure inmates weren't tortured.

c)

A movement that fought for fair pay (wages) and shorter working hours.

d)

A movement to improve labor rooms in hospitals.

24.

What was the temperance movement?

a)

Reform movement that improved care for the disabled.

b)

A Reform movement that wanted to ban the sale and consumption (drinking) of alcohol.

c)

Reform movement that fought for women's equal rights.

d)

Reform movement that improved care of prisoners.

25.

Chinese Immigrants were?

a)

People who came to the United States in 1848 for the railroad and the gold rush.

b)

Immigrants who left their country for economic opportunity.

c)

Immigrants who were underpaid and experience high degrees of racial discrimination.

d)

All of the above.

26.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a

a)

Leader of Prison Reform.

b)

Leader of the Abolition Movement.

c)

Leader of Child Labor Reform.

d)

Leader of the Women's Rights Movement.

27.

Dorothea Dix was an advocate

a)

For Prison Reform.

b)

For the removal of alcohol.

c)

For Labor Reform.

d)

For Education Reform.

28.

Women's Rights

a)

Created the Declaration of Sentiments in Seneca Falls, New York (A declaration for women's rights).

b)

Reform movement for women's suffrage and equal pay (among other issues)

c)

Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony

d)

All of the above

29.

Who was the famous abolitionist who published the Liberator?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Sojourner Truth

30.

The first official political meeting to address the issue of Women's Rights was held here.

a)

Albany

b)

Philadelphia

c)

Seneca Falls

d)

Niagara Falls

31.

The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted.

a)

spiritual revival and the need for social reform.

b)

the use of reason and scientific theory

c)

mercantilism and global trade

d)

states rights

32.

What was the result of the suffrage movement?

a)

More slaves suffered at the hands of their slave owners.

b)

Women got the right to vote.

c)

Children got better pay and better hours.

d)

Women no longer needed to give their husbands the paycheck.

33.

What caused the massive influx of Irish immigrants to the United States in the early 1800s?

a)

the need for skilled artisans and craftsmen

b)

the free land in the West

c)

a terrible famine and disease in Ireland

d)

the increase in the political power of Irish immigrants in America

34.

What social problem did the temperance movement attempt to address?

a)

Slavery

b)

Treatment of prisoners.

c)

Women's suffrage.

d)

Alcoholism

35.

What shift in American society spurred the beginning of the women's movement?

a)

the development of the middle class

b)

the increase in immigration from Europe

c)

the movement of work from farms to factories

d)

the introduction of suffrage legislation

36.

Ways in which women's rights were limited in the 1800s

a)

Could not vote

b)

Could not sign contracts

c)

Could not keep their own wages

d)

All of the above

37.

Limited government, competition, supply and demand, private property, and profit motive are all characteristics of

a)

Federalism

b)

Temperance

c)

Free Enterprise

d)

Democracy