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WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
The cottage industry system involved manufacturing...
In the home
Of steam engines
Luxury goods
In small factories
Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?
Dangerous working conditions
Low wages
Safe working conditions
Widespread pollution
Any fabric that is woven (by machine or hand) is called -
Technology
Economy
Textile
Rollerblade
A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.
School
Cooperation
Urbanization
Factory system
This machine separated the seed from cotton fibers.
Spinning Jenny
Spinning wheel
Cotton gin
Steam Engine
Mass production led to:
Products being more superior in quality
Laborers received higher wages
Goods became less expensive
Industries moved to rural areas
How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?
Made the crime rate decrease
Make the cities cleaner and safer
Led to an increase in farm workers
Led to an increase in population in the cities
What was the purpose of labor unions?
Negotiate as a group for bigger factories
Negotiate as a group for better working conditions
Negotiate as a group for a political revolution
Negotiate as a group for a social revolution
When workers in a union refuse to work until conditions improve
Urbanization
Strike
Factory System
Labor Union
One effect of the cotton gin was that ____.
farmers could plant more cotton in limited space
the seeds of the cotton plant no longer stuck to the fibers
the need for enslaved labor decreased
workers could process more cotton
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Jim Morse
James Watt
Alexander Graham Bell
Where were most factories built before the steam engine was invented?
in the mountains
anywhere
in the desert
along rivers
Which 2 natural resources were the backbone of the Industrial Revolution?
cotton and tobacco
oil and natural gas
coal and iron
wood and peat
Why were railroads so important during this time?
they moved goods more quickly and less expensively over greater distances
people could ride on railroads to get to their jobs in another city
they were fun to ride on to go visit family in other states
it was cheaper than flying
Who invented the steamboat?
Francis Cabot Lowell
Robert Fulton
Cyrus McCormick
Samuel Morse
Which of the following people was a transcendentalist who was jailed for not paying a tax that would support war?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emily Dickinson
Dorothea Dix
Henry David Thoreau
What religious movement led to the other reform movements?
The First Great Awakening
The Reformation
The Second Great Awakening
The Renaissance
In which essay does Thoreau propose that people should examine whether they should obey unjust laws?
Nature
Civil Disobedience
Self-Reliance
Walden
The Transcendentalists believed in self-reliance and free thought.
True
False
The immigrant population that primarily helped build the transcontinental railroad came from
Chinese
Irish
Mexican
French
What was the abolition movement?
Movement to abolish sales and consumption (drinking) of alcoholic beverages.
Reform movement to end slavery.
Reform Movement to improve education.
Immigrants who came to America to build the railroad.
Who was Horace Mann?
Leader of the Education reform movement.
Leader of the evil empire.
Leader of Abolitionism.
Leader of the Temperance Movement.
Labor reform was
A movement to end slavery, also known as abolition.
A movement to improve prison labor to make sure inmates weren't tortured.
A movement that fought for fair pay (wages) and shorter working hours.
A movement to improve labor rooms in hospitals.
What was the temperance movement?
Reform movement that improved care for the disabled.
A Reform movement that wanted to ban the sale and consumption (drinking) of alcohol.
Reform movement that fought for women's equal rights.
Reform movement that improved care of prisoners.
Chinese Immigrants were?
People who came to the United States in 1848 for the railroad and the gold rush.
Immigrants who left their country for economic opportunity.
Immigrants who were underpaid and experience high degrees of racial discrimination.
All of the above.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a
Leader of Prison Reform.
Leader of the Abolition Movement.
Leader of Child Labor Reform.
Leader of the Women's Rights Movement.
Dorothea Dix was an advocate
For Prison Reform.
For the removal of alcohol.
For Labor Reform.
For Education Reform.
Women's Rights
Created the Declaration of Sentiments in Seneca Falls, New York (A declaration for women's rights).
Reform movement for women's suffrage and equal pay (among other issues)
Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony
All of the above
Who was the famous abolitionist who published the Liberator?
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Sojourner Truth
The first official political meeting to address the issue of Women's Rights was held here.
Albany
Philadelphia
Seneca Falls
Niagara Falls
The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted.
spiritual revival and the need for social reform.
the use of reason and scientific theory
mercantilism and global trade
states rights
What was the result of the suffrage movement?
More slaves suffered at the hands of their slave owners.
Women got the right to vote.
Children got better pay and better hours.
Women no longer needed to give their husbands the paycheck.
What caused the massive influx of Irish immigrants to the United States in the early 1800s?
the need for skilled artisans and craftsmen
the free land in the West
a terrible famine and disease in Ireland
the increase in the political power of Irish immigrants in America
What social problem did the temperance movement attempt to address?
Slavery
Treatment of prisoners.
Women's suffrage.
Alcoholism
What shift in American society spurred the beginning of the women's movement?
the development of the middle class
the increase in immigration from Europe
the movement of work from farms to factories
the introduction of suffrage legislation
Ways in which women's rights were limited in the 1800s
Could not vote
Could not sign contracts
Could not keep their own wages
All of the above
Limited government, competition, supply and demand, private property, and profit motive are all characteristics of
Federalism
Temperance
Free Enterprise
Democracy
