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Industrial Revolution Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 37mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Invented the telephone

a)

Samuel Morse

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Henry Ford

2.

Invented the cotton gin

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Henry Ford

3.

Invented the automobile

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Henry Ford

4.

Invented the radio

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Henry Ford

5.

Invented the telegraph

a)

Samuel Morse

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Henry Ford

6.

___ created the first light bulb.

a)

Carnegie

b)

Edison

c)

Bell

d)

Cash

7.

Based on the time line, under whose presidential administration did the Wright brothers fly the first motorized airplane?

a)

Cleveland

b)

McKinley

c)

Harrison

d)

Roosevelt

8.

The Wright Brothers tested their plane at ____.

a)

Menlo Park, NJ

b)

New York City, NY

c)

Kitty Hawk, NC

d)

Burnt Corn, AL

9.

____ is a natural resource.

a)

Plastic

b)

Coke

c)

Oil

d)

Metal

10.

____ is a company that has control of an entire market.

a)

Monopoly

b)

Uno

c)

Stock

d)

Monarchy

11.

Andrew Carnegie's made his fortune in the ____ industry.

a)

oil

b)

steel

c)

automobile

d)

railroad

12.

____ is a small share of a company.

a)

Stock

b)

Jock

c)

Rock

d)

Smock

13.

_____ are people who give money to a business or project to gain a profit.

a)

Inventors

b)

Investors

c)

Stocks

d)

Markets

14.

___ made millions off refining oil.

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Horse Face McGee

15.

____ resources are the people who produce the goods and services.

a)

Capital

b)

Animal

c)

Human

d)

Common

16.

____ resources are the tools used to make goods and services.

a)

Capital

b)

Animal

c)

Human

d)

Common

17.

____ was the country's most wealthy and powerful banker.

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Thomas Edison

18.

_____ are people who use goods and services.

a)

Consumers

b)

Producers

c)

Entrepreneurs

d)

Businessmen

19.

Corporations are made up of _______.

a)

Inventors

b)

Investors

c)

Pilots

d)

Puppies

20.

This period saw a lot of urban migration as people, drawn by factory jobs, moved from the country to the city. However, many cities weren’t ready or able to accommodate their growing population. Families often lived in tenements, which were overcrowded apartments, and the living conditions were terrible. Outhouses and toilets often drained to the same water people drank. Diseases like tuberculosis and smallpox spread quickly. Life expectancy was much lower in cities than in the countryside.The photographer Jacob Riis published a book called How the Other Half Lives, showing how bad it was to live in urban slums. Eventually, cities began some of the programs that we are used to today, such as garbage removal and clean water and sewage management to improve the quality of people’s lives. People who moved to cities during the Industrial Revolution most likely _______

a)

lived longer than those who lived in rural areas

b)

became sick less frequently than those in rural area

c)

had better access to factory jobs than those in rural areas.

d)

had cleaner living conditions than those in rural areas.

21.

At the start of the 1700s, most people's day-to-day lives moved slowly. Few people ever left their hometowns. Leisure and sports barely existed, and instead of shopping for things, most people made them. Usually, all members of a family worked all day, so the family was able to survive.The Industrial Revolution, an 80-year period from about 1760 to 1840, set off an explosion of change, and history hasn't stopped flying since. The technology of the Industrial Revolution turned daily life upside down. It changed how people ate, where they lived and how they worked, traveled, communicated and simply spent their days.Those who lived through the Industrial Revolution most likely ___________

a)

never learned to use any technology

b)

did not see any important historical changes

c)

never did any shopping and always made their own goods

d)

witnessed the development of new technology

22.

Which of the facts below might help explain the artist’s depiction of Standard Oil?

a)

In 1911, the Supreme Court Ruled that Standard Oil had to be split into several smaller companies.

b)

By the 1880s, Standard oil had become the largest oil refiner in the country, controlling access to 90% of the refined oil in the US.

c)

By the early 1890s, there were more than 4,000 millionaires in America, and most of them claimed to be self-made men.

d)

Throughout the year 1904, investigative journalist Ida Tarbell published her famous series of articles on Standard Oil, mostly critiquing the company’s ruthless practices.

23.

Analyzing the photo taken by Lewis Hine, which statements are true.

a)

These children were paid less than adults.

b)

The workplace was not safe for them.

c)

Their education was minimal at best.

d)

All of the above

24.

How did Lewis Hine show what needed to be corrected?

a)

Hine would photograph children in gritty industrial settings that inspired a wave of moral outrage

b)

Hine would photograph the inside dealing of the banking industry

c)

Hine would photograph the oil rigs used at Standard Oil

d)

Hine never exposed anything that needed to be corrected he was more focused on beauty.

25.

Besides the physical dangers of child labor there was also the danger of the cycle never being broken in these poor urban families. Why?

a)

Children who were not educated had no choice but continue working in factories their entire life.

b)

There was no way to move up in a career because of illiteracy.

c)

People who were illiterate could never move above the poverty level.

d)

All of the above

26.

Labor unions wanted to make changes to the work place. Which of the following is NOT one of the changes labor unions wanted?

a)

higher pay

b)

fairer treatment

c)

reasonable working hours

d)

All are changes labor unions wanted.

27.

How did the tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory change working conditions?

a)

Because of this tragedy, the government began to pass strict regulations for fire codes.

b)

Because of this tragedy, the government began to hold the factory owners accountable for their employees.

c)

Neither A or B

d)

Both A and B

28.

What is the economic system in which industries are privately owned, and the prices, production, and distribution of goods are determined by competition in a free market?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Socialism

c)

Communism

d)

Monarchy