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WorksheetsMWH Industrial Revolution Review
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 32mins
Ultimately child labor ended when children were sent to:
War
Farms
Fight in the French Revolution
School
How were machines in early factories specifically designed to be operated by children?
They were made for people who were only three feet tall
They were made for people who were women
They had signs that said “NO OLD PEOPLE” on them
They were made for people with small hands
The Industrial Revolution began in this country:
France
Belgium
Great Britain
Germany
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
The Canal System made it easier to transport goods
Britain had many raw materials such as coal & iron
Britain already had many trade partners all over the world that they could sell things to
Great Britain had been triumphant in the First World War
Early machines in mills were powered by this:
Air
Water
Earth
Fire
James Watt improved this invention which allowed factories to be located anywhere in the country:
The Spinning Jenny
The Steam Engine
The Cotton Gin
The Water Frame
All of the following were ways that railroads improved society in the Industrial Era EXCEPT:
They replaced boats as the primary way people traveled across the ocean
They allowed people to travel to other places for tourism and romantic purposes
They made it easier to get necessary supplies to far away locations.
They caused time to be standardized so people all over the country had to agree on the exact time to keep railroad schedules consistent.
What is the term that refers to people moving to cities in large numbers & the growth of cities?
Proletarianization
Urbanization
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Communism
Industrialism spread to all of the following countries by the mid 1800s EXCEPT:
France
Germany
Russia
Belgium
All of the following were NEGATIVE aspects of industrialization EXCEPT:
A Shorter lifespan for many workers
Limited, poor, and unsafe housing
Disease due to poor public sanitation
An increase in the production of goods
What was used as fuel to create the heat the steam engines required?
Cotton
Coal
Wool
Solar Power
Why did France take so long to industrialize?
They didn’t begin industrializing until Louis XIV was executed
There was no coal in France until Napoleon ordered that it be created
They didn’t begin industrializing until Napoleon was defeated
The French didn’t have any water so they couldn’t make factories
What law limited child labor for all children under nine years of age:
Factory Act of 1833
Edict of Nantes
Hawley-Smooth Tarriff
The Peace of Augsburg
This law limited the hours of women & children in factory to ten hours:
The Factory Act of 1833
The Ten Hours Act
The Boston Tea Party (Intolerable Acts)
The Mason-Dixon Line
Which art style emphasized emotion over reason and was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution?
Cubism
Romanticism
Abstract Expressionism
Impressionism
During the Industrial Revolution, British cities began to:
slowly grow in population
gradually shrink in population.
create social divisions between different ethnic groups
grow in population rapidly
This disease killed thousands of poor people in cities due to contaminated water:
Smallpox
Cholera
Halitosis
Rabies
Which of these statements about child labor is TRUE?
Most children were paid less than men but more than women.
Children were not given difficult or dangerous jobs in the factories
Children were beaten if they didn’t work fast enough
Most children worked short workdays (less than five hours)
Which ideology is Karl Marx most closely associated with?
capitalism
utilitarianism
communism
anarchy
REVIEW QUESTION: Who was the Queen of France at the beginning of the French Revolution?
Kim Kardashian-West
Marie Antoinette
Elizabeth I
Catherine the Great
Ruth Bader-Ginsberg
REVIEW QUESTION: Who was the head of the Committee of Public Safety that became the leader of France during the Reign of Terror?
Marat
Danton
Robespierre
Louis XVI (16th)
Napoleon
REVIEW QUESTION: The “George Washington” of the Haitian Revolution was:
Boukman Dutty
Napoleon
Thomas Jefferson
Toussaint L'Ouverture
REVIEW QUESTION: Which Enlightenment thinker believed that all humans had a right to life, liberty and property?
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
REVIEW QUESTION: An influential French writer who wrote that “Power should be a check to power” and believed in separate branches of government was:
Thomas Hobbes
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
Billy Pilgrim
Which of the following statements about women in factories is TRUE?
Many women stopped working to start families once they were in their 20s
Women were not in charge of the household chores after work.
Most Women served as Factory Owners or Supervisors.
Women earned 3x the pay of most men
An entrepreneur is a type of
Assassin
French Perfume
Businessman
Robot that Works in an Assembly Line
Workers are often referred to as:
Labor
Land
Capital
Residents of the Hundred Acre Wood
What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking better working conditions?
Strikeboyz
Unions
Toastmasters
Teletubbies
REVIEW QUESTION: Which 1789 French document stated that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights”?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Declaration of Independence
English Bill of Rights (1689)
Magna Carta
REVIEW QUESTION: What was the intellectual movement that contributed to the idea of governments protecting the rights of the citizens and being popularly elected as well as a separation of power?
The Industrial Revolution
The Renaissance
The Reformation
The Enlightenment
REVIEW QUESTION: Napoleon's Civil Code treated women
as co-owners of property with their husbands
as legal equals to men
as less equal than men
equally in divorce proceedings
REVIEW QUESTION: This philosopher wrote a book called Leviathan wherein he described human beings as naturally evil & selfish and said they needed a strong absolute monarch to rule over them.
Locke
Hobbes
Rousseau
Louis XIV (14th)
REVIEW QUESTION: Which French leader attempted to reimpose slavery in Haiti?
Louis XIV (14th)
Louis XVI (16th)
George Washington
Napoleon
Robespierre
REVIEW QUESTION: The wealth of Haiti came primarily from its production of this:
Potatoes
Turnips
Sugar
Wheat
Choose the letter of the event that came FIRST out of these five events:
Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The French Revolution
The American Revolution
REVIEW QUESTION: What is the name for Copernicus's idea that the sun is the center of the universe?
Heliocentric
Geocentric
Egocentric
Autocentric
REVIEW QUESTION: The President of the United States of America is part of this branch of the Federal Government, as guaranteed by the United States Constitution:
Judicial Branch
Federal Branch
Legislative Branch
Tree Branch
Just before the Industrial Revolution, what Revolution happened in farming?
agricultural revolution
domestic revolution
factory revolution
urban revolution
Which of the following happened during the agricultural revolution?
Many small farmers became tenant farmers or moved to cities.
Wealthy landowners gained ownership of large enclosed farms.
Landowners experimented with new agricultural methods and inventions.
All of These
Which statement about how the Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution are linked is FALSE?
Increased food production directly caused population growth
More farmers were needed to feed the bigger population
The farmers that were no longer needed moved to cities to find work
More factory workers were needed to produce goods for the growing population
What type of work did children NOT perform in Victorian Britain?
sanitation
agricultural
factory work
construction
Which statement about the middle class in England during the Industrial Revolution is true?
Most factory owners came from the middle class
Most women workers came from the middle class
The number of people in the middle class shrunk
All of these
The first factories in the Industrial Revolution were in this industry:
Banking
Coal mining
Textile
Railroads
Which of the following is NOT one of Karl Marx's predictions?
The workers would peacefully take over the means of production
The struggle between the middle and working classes would lead to a revolution
A true socialist society would no longer have different economic classes
A dictatorship would temporarily be in charge until no government was needed
The ideology (ideas) of Karl Marx is an extreme version of this way of thought:
Capitalism
Socialism
Nazism
The Bessemer Process
The economic system that Adam Smith argued for was known as ____________.
Communism
Capitalism
Socialism
Anarchy
He improved the Steam Engine
James Watt
John Kay
Eli Whitney
Samuel Crompton
He invented the Spinning Mule
James Watt
John Kay
Eli Whitney
Samuel Crompton
He invented the Flying Shuttle
James Watt
John Kay
Eli Whitney
Samuel Crompton
He invented the Cotton Gin
James Watt
John Kay
Eli Whitney
Samuel Crompton
He invented the Water Frame
James Watt
John Kay
Eli Whitney
Richard Arkwright
He invented the Spinning Jenny
Jojo Siwa
James Hargreaves
Eli Whitney
Samuel Crompton
To increase production output during the Industrial Revolution, businesses primarily invested in _____________
Worker's Wages
The Machinery Workers Used
Training Workers
Marketing (Advertisements)
In cities throughout the 19th century, the poor usually lived in ______________
Tenements
Ritzy uptown apartments
Government Housing
Tents
Parliament began to investigate conditions of child labor by authorizing the ________________ Commission.
Sadler
Sully
Smiles
Scully
A main reason for the shift of population to cities during the industrial revolution was the availability of this type of work:
Agricultural (farming)
Schoolteachers
Doctors (Health Care)
Factory Jobs
Growing cities in the Industrial Revolution were often located next to what resource(s)?
Farmland
Oil Wells
Child Labor Farms
Coal & Iron Mines
Prior to the Invention of the Railroad, how did early industrialists move products from the country to the city?
Airplanes
Trains
Canals
Teleportation
Which country is the "A" referring to?
France
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
Which country is the "B" referring to?
France
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
Which country is the "C" referring to?
France
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
Which country is the "D" referring to?
France
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
Which country is the "E" referring to?
France
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
