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Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is this invention?

a)

Spinning Jenny

b)

Power Loom

c)

Steam Engine

d)

Telegraph

2.

What is this invention?

a)

Spinning Jenny

b)

Power Loom

c)

Steam Engine

d)

Telegraph

3.

What is this invention?

a)

Spinning Jenny

b)

Power Loom

c)

Steam Engine

d)

Telegraph

4.

What code makes use of dots and dashes?

a)

Morse Code

b)

Mosh Code

c)

Morsel Code

d)

Smores Code

5.

Who was credited for inventing the modern telephone?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Nicola Tesla

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

6.

Who was the foreign inventor who came in direct competition with Thomas Edison in helping spread electricity to America?

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Samuel Morse

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

7.

Who was credited for inventing the incandescent lightbulb?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Nicola Tesla

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

8.

Who were the inventors featured in this photo?

a)

Wright brothers

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Henry Ford and Enzo Ferrari

d)

Tesla brothers

9.

This refers to a person who provides capital to a businessman.

a)

investor

b)

capitalist

c)

consumer

d)

bourgeoisie

10.

This refers to a person who buys products from businessmen.

a)

investor

b)

capitalist

c)

consumer

d)

bourgeoisie

11.

This term refers to businessmen or those who control how products are made and sold.

a)

investor

b)

capitalist

c)

consumer

d)

proletariat

12.

Which of the following jobs are not considered as part of the MIDDLE CLASS?

a)

farmer

b)

factory worker

c)

doctor

d)

lawyer

13.

Which of the following statements are true about the lower class in the Industrial Revolution?

a)

They work in the factories as laborers.

b)

They are also called the proletariat.

c)

They get paid wages.

d)

They get paid with salaries.

14.

Which of the following statements are true?

a)

Wages are given to the lower class.

b)

Salaries are given to the middle class.

c)

As a wage worker, not working means not getting paid.

d)

An education is necessary to be a salary worker.

15.

This refers to the migrating of people from the countryside to the cities.

a)

urbanization

b)

industrialization

c)

socialism

d)

liberalism

16.

This refers to the large scale use machines in producing products faster and more efficient.

a)

urbanization

b)

industrialization

c)

socialism

d)

liberalism

17.

This is the belief that governments should leave businesses alone and instead focus on giving people more rights.

a)

urbanization

b)

industrialization

c)

socialism

d)

liberalism

18.

This term means "let it be"

a)

laissez faire

b)

vive la liberte

c)

c'est la vie

d)

le marche

19.

This is the belief that the best action is the one that brings the most good to the most number of people.

a)

utilitarianism

b)

socialism

c)

liberalism

d)

communism

20.

Why do communist governments use these symbols?

a)

They say they represent the working class.

b)

They represent the Grim Reaper.

c)

The symbols represent prosperity.

d)

They were influenced by China's flag.