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Jaden's Industrial Revolution Quiz

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This gives the inventor legal rights to the invention and profits.

a)

Copyright

b)

Legality

c)

Patent

d)

Trade Mark

2.

Eli Whitney invented the (a)  

3.

The Industrial Revolution...

a)

changed the way people worked from farming to working in bigger cities.

b)

created jobs for people

c)

turned back to farming in traditional ways without machinery

4.

Money that people traveling west paid to use parts of the road

a)

Taxes

b)

Tarriffs

c)

Tolls

d)

Telegrams

5.

Canals helped

a)

lower the cost of shipping

b)

people be able to swim as a hobby

c)

connected part of the country that weren't before

d)

were invented by Eli Whitney

6.

Interchangeable parts

a)

are new Lego pieces that can be used for old

b)

lowered the cost of products

c)

made it possible for tuba parts to be played by trumpet

d)

created roads west

7.

This area of the country had bad soil so it was where they started the industrial revolution instead.

a)

North and South Carolina

b)

Ohio River Valley

c)

Florida Area

d)

New England Area

8.

The 'Great Compromiser" believed in the United States

a)

Henry Clay

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

George Washington

d)

Francis Cabot Lowell

9.

The western edge of the National Road was in

a)

Asheville, North Carolina

b)

St. Louis, Missouori

c)

Vadalia, Illinois

d)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

10.

One of the major components of free enterprise was

a)

A new road leading west

b)

Economic Freedom

c)

The cotton gin

d)

Monopoly

11.

This person started the mill factory system

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

James Monroe

c)

Francis Cabot Lowell

d)

Henry Clay

12.

The New England States was where:

a)

Piracy was common

b)

The wilderness road began

c)

The Seminole Indians were from

d)

The industrial Revolution began

13.

The first US Foreign Policy (how the people and government should trade with and relate to other countries) was called

a)

The Monroe Doctrine

b)

Tarriff Laws

c)

The Washington Doctrine

d)

The Industrial Compact

14.

The 'Era of Good Feeling' was

a)

When blankets were first started to be made in the textile mills

b)

Happiness brought on by the end of the war between England and the US

c)

Free Enterprise

d)

Pride in the accomplishments of the United States

15.

The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the US was in

a)

1776

b)

1851

c)

1800

d)

1812

16.

The Lowell Factory System

a)

Was a system of many buildings where each individual step of the process of making something happened

b)

Was a way to train the workers to make the most product they could in a given time period

c)

combined all the steps of making something under one roof, in one building

d)

Was created by Eli Whitney

17.

By 1820 2.4 million people lived west of

a)

Boston Harbor

b)

Appalachian Mountains

c)

Plymouth Massachusetts

d)

England

18.

The main southern highway that lead west was called

a)

The National Road

b)

The Appalachian Trail

c)

The Wilderness Road

d)

Highway 12

19.

The Wilderness Road was created by

a)

Francis Cabot Lowell

b)

Daniel Boone

c)

Henry Clay

d)

Andrew Jackson

20.

Economic activity between two or more states is called

a)

Free Market economy

b)

Monopoly

c)

Interstate Commerce

d)

US Foreign Policy

21.

James Monroe

a)

invented the Cotton Gin

b)

was the captain of the Clermont, the first passenger steamship

c)

created the mill factory system

d)

was a republican who ran for president in 1816

22.

Andrew Jackson

a)

built the first steamship, Clermont

b)

invaded Spanish Florida in 1818

c)

ran for president in 1816

d)

invented the cotton gin

23.

Capital is

a)

a governing city in a state

b)

an upper case letter

c)

money for investments

d)

an official count of the country's population

24.

Monopoly is

a)

A fun game where as a real estate investor you try to buy up all the properties so you eventually have a monopoly and there is only one option for peple wanting to stay in a hotel around the board.

b)

The name of the road that connected the east with the west

c)

a market where there is one provider

d)

Minecraft would have a monopoly on the market if it was the only video game available for people to play

25.

The Clermont

a)

was the first full service hotel in Boston

b)

was the first steam ship that allowed strolling the deck and had sleeping quarters

c)

was the first model of the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney

d)

was the road that lead from Maine to Florida

26.

Disadvantage for river travel was

a)

uncomfortable

b)

didn't go easily to the east

c)

was expensive

d)

didn't go easily to the west

27.

The Missouri Compromise

a)

purchased the state of Missouri from the Seminole indians

b)

created 12 free states and 12 slave states

c)

created 24 free states

d)

created 24 slave states

28.

Which is UNTRUE of the Louisiana purchase?

a)

Took place in 1803

b)

Land deal between US and France

c)

Created 12 free and 12 slave states

d)

$15million land deal that purchased land west of the Mississippi River