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WorksheetsLife in the Industrial Age
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What two new forms of transportation emerged around 1900?
Cars and planes
Railroads and planes
Steamships and trains
Phones and radios
why did companies sell stocks?
to raise capital
to increase production
to raise wages
to up prices
What was a major reason for Europe's population boom in the late 1800s?
Families had more kids
Urbanization
Farmers increased production
The death rate fell
The theory of natural selection was controversial because...
it was not based on evidence
it was economically motivated
it contradicted the Bible
it went against promoting industry
By the late 1800s, most women in Europe had won the right to...
attend universities and control their own property
vote and control their own property
get a divorce and vote
run for public office and attend universities
What was the movement against alcohol?
Social gospel
Progressive movement
Temperance
Suffrage
What was the Progressive Movement?
Reformers who aimed to improve urban conditions
Self-help groups who helped injured workers
Groups formed by workers to fight for better pay and working conditions
Religious organization which focused on business
What were labor unions?
groups formed by workers to gain better wages and conditions
movement aimed at improving urban conditions
groups against the consumption of alcohol
businesses owned by many investors
What was the cult of domesticity?
idealized home life for middle-class women and reinforced traditional gender roles
Called for women to take on expanded roles in business and education
religious organization which looked to help the working-class
group formed by workers to demand higher wages
What amendment granted American women suffrage, or the right to vote?
19th
18th
21st
15th
Which industrialist dominated the US steel industry?
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Sinclair
Nightingale
Who invented the radio?
Louis Pasteur
Alfred Nobel
Gugliemo Marconi
Henry Bessemer
Which scientist advanced atomic theory?
John Dalton
Louis Pasteur
Sojourner Truth
Henry Bessemer
What did Alfred Nobel do?
invented dynamite
confirmed Germ Theory
invented a process to efficiently make steel
proposed evolutionary theory
What did Henry Bessemer do?
introduced a process to more efficiently produce steel
confirmed Germ Theory
invented the airplane
invented the light bulb
Which movement urged Christians to participate in social service?
Social gospel
Temperance
Utopian idealism
Progressivism
Which was the second country to industrialize?
Belgium
United States
France
Germany
The group of writers and journalists who exposed problems in society were...
Muckrakers
Romantic reformers
Suffragists
Mutual-aid societies
