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WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution Inventions
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
What was the Spinning Jenny used for?
Weaving Cloth
Sorting Cotting
Making Electricity
Transportation
Which one of the inventions from your chart changed the way goods and people were transported?
Telephone
Light Bulb
Steam Engine
Cotton Gin
Which one of the inventions from your chart changed the way cotton was processed?
Cotton Gin
Spinning Jenny
Bessemer Steel Process
Light Bulb
Who invented the Spinning Jenny?
Thomas Edison
James Hargreaves
Albert Einstein
Eli Whitney
The invention of these made it possible to replace a broken part with ease instead of having to wait for custom replacements
mass production
division of labor
interchangeable parts
This invention turned rivers into busy routes for traders and travelers.
Railroads
Steamboat
Telegraph
Mechanical Reaper
How did the cotton gin change cotton production in the South?
Cotton was made faster.
Cotton became the most important cash crop in the United States.
It could clean more cotton in minutes than a whole group of workers could clean in a day.
all of the above
Inventor of the pasteurization process that removes bacteria from beverages like milk and beer.
Louis Pasteur
James Watt
Eli Whitney
Charles McCormick
Who invented the steel plow?
John Deere
James McCormick
Eli Whitney
Mrs. Schultz (obviously)
The steel plow helped farmers...
plow heavy, rich soil
make farming more difficult
plow light soil
plant seeds faster
Who invented the idea of food canning?
Nicolas Appert
Robert Fulton
Nicolas Copernacus
Eli Whitney
Food canning...
changed the way we store food
kept food fresh and flavorful for longer
created a vacuum-tight seal
made it more difficult to store food in homes
The introduction of interchangeable parts led directly to the —
A. formation of the patent system
B. creation of labor unions
C. use of mass-production techniques (assembly lines)
D. eight-hour workday
How did new methods of mass production (assembly lines) contribute to the Industrial Revolution?
by having skilled workers
by creating products more quickly and cheaply
by making many products that were more expensive
by allowing products to be made more slowly and carefully
The telegraph...
was invented by Morse Code
allowed people to communicate instantaneously
allowed the government to share information quickly
connected continents, like America to Europe
The mechanical reaper...
increased farming production
decreased farming production
made farming more difficult
planted seeds automatically for farmers
