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Northern Economy

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is production of large numbers of individual goods

a)

Technology

b)

Mass production

c)

Textiles

d)

Trade Unions

2.

These are groups created by workers to improve pay and working conditions for workers

a)

Technology

b)

Mass production

c)

Textiles

d)

Trade Unions

3.

These are cloth items

a)

Technology

b)

Mass production

c)

Textiles

d)

Trade Unions

4.

These are tools that are used to produce goods or to do work

a)

Technology

b)

Mass production

c)

Textiles

d)

Trade Unions

5.

A device that sends electrical signals through a wire to send messages across great

distances

a)

Telegraph

b)

strike

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Rhode Island System

6.

A period of fast growth in use of machines for making goods

a)

Telegraph

b)

strike

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Rhode Island System

7.

A refusal to work until employers meet workers’ demands

a)

Telegraph

b)

strike

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Rhode Island System

8.

I am a British mechanic who came to the United States and taught Americans how to build spinning machines and factories.

a)

Samuel Slater

b)

Elias Howe

c)

Samuel Morse

d)

Robert Fulton

9.

I am the Inventor of the first useable steamship.

a)

Samuel Slater

b)

Elias Howe

c)

Samuel Morse

d)

Robert Fulton

10.

I am The Factory apprentice who invented the sewing machine.

a)

Samuel Slater

b)

Elias Howe

c)

Samuel Morse

d)

Robert Fulton

11.

I am the Inventor who came up with the idea of interchangeable parts to make and repair guns quickly and easily.

a)

Richard Arkwright

b)

John Deere

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Eli Whitney

12.

I am the Inventor of the steel plow that made planting easier in thick soil.

a)

Richard Arkwright

b)

John Deere

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Eli Whitney

13.

I Invented the water frame to speed the production of cotton thread.

a)

Richard Arkwright

b)

John Deere

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Eli Whitney

14.

I am the Inventor of a harvesting machine called the mechanical reaper.

a)

Richard Arkwright

b)

John Deere

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Eli Whitney

15.

I am The Inventor of the telegraph which could send information over wires across great distances.

a)

Samuel Slater

b)

Elias Howe

c)

Samuel Morse

d)

Robert Fulton