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Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did Thomas Newcomen invent?

a)

Steam Engine

b)

Cotton Gin

c)

Assembly Line

d)

Vulcanized Rubber

2.

What did Eli Whitney invent?

a)

Steam Engine

b)

Cotton Gin

c)

Assembly Line

d)

Vulcanized Rubber

3.

What did Charles Goodyear invent?

a)

Steam Engine

b)

Cotton Gin

c)

Assembly Line

d)

Vulcanized Rubber

4.

What did Samuel Morse invent?

a)

Radio

b)

Telegraph

c)

Incandescent Lightbulb

d)

Telephone

5.

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

a)

Telegraph

b)

Radio

c)

Incandescent Lightbulb

d)

Telephone

6.

What did Thomas Edison invent?

a)

Radio

b)

Telegraph

c)

Incandescent Lightbulb

d)

Telephone

7.

What did Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invent?

a)

Modern Automobile

b)

Radio

c)

Airplane

d)

Assembly Line

8.

What did Guglielmo Marconi invent?

a)

Modern Automobile

b)

Radio

c)

Airplane

d)

Assembly Line

9.

What did Wilbur and Orville Wright invent?

a)

Modern Automobile

b)

Radio

c)

Airplane

d)

Assembly Line

10.

What did Henry Ford invent?

a)

Modern Automobile

b)

Radio

c)

Airplane

d)

Assembly Line

11.

What happened first?

a)

Building the Erie Canal

b)

Connecting the Transcontinental Railroad

c)

Beginning of World War I

d)

Building the Cumberland Road

12.

What event happened last?

a)

Building the Cumberland Road

b)

Building the Erie Canal

c)

Connecting the Transitional Railroad

d)

Beginning of World War I

13.

True or False: The Erie Canal was built before the Cumberland Road.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

True or False: The building of the Cumberland Road and the Erie Canal was built before the connecting of the Transcontinental Railroad.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

True or False: The First Entertainment Broadcast over the radio was after WWI.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

What helped more people travel from the East Coast to the West Coast without changing forms of transportation?

a)

Assembly Line

b)

Airplane

c)

Modern Automobile

d)

Transcontinental Railroad

17.

The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to Lake Erie near New York City making New York.......?

a)

cheaper and smaller

b)

richer and smaller

c)

cheaper and bigger

d)

richer and bigger

18.

What had to get taller because more people were working in cities and space was limited?

a)

Barbed Wire

b)

Wagons

c)

Buildings

d)

Modern Automobiles

19.

True or False: The telegraph allowed people to use a code to transmit messages across the country almost instantly, news traveled much faster.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

True or False: A lot of inventions from American inventors were related to agriculture (farming) because America had so much land and grew so many crops.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

What was the purpose of most inventions used in factories during the Industrial Revolution?

a)

To make work easier for workers

b)

To make life harder for farmers

c)

To create more free time

d)

To make work more efficient and make more money

22.

Which of the following inventions was the earliest?

a)

Barbed wire

b)

Steam engine

c)

Radio

d)

Incandescent lightbulb

23.

Which of the following inventions was NOT created for agriculture?

a)

Assembly line

b)

Steel plow

c)

Grain elevator

d)

Mechanical reaper

24.

Which of the following was a benefit of using incandescent lightbulbs in homes?

a)

Fewer house fires

b)

More electricity

c)

More strain on the eyes

d)

No heat from the bulbs

25.

Which of the following did not have to be invented first so that we would have modern cars?

a)

Vulcanized rubber

b)

Steam engine

c)

Incandescent lightbulb

d)

Internal combustion engine

26.

Which of the following help close off the frontier?

a)

Steel plow

b)

Grain elevator

c)

Barbed wire

d)

Cumberland Road

27.

Which of the following statements about the Erie Canal is NOT true?

a)

The Erie Canal was 363 miles long.

b)

The Erie Canal connected the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico.

c)

The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

d)

The Erie Canal was paid for by the New York State Government.

28.

Which of the following was one of the problems that vulcanized rubber fixed?

a)

Natural rubber was too rare, so an artificial kind had to be created.

b)

Natural rubber was too expensive, so vulcanizing made it cheaper.

c)

Natural rubber was too flexible, so vulcanizing made it harder.

d)

Natural rubber would fall apart with changing weather, so vulcanizing made it last longer.

29.

What does it mean to patent something?

a)

You've thought of an idea for the first time and written it down.

b)

You bought the idea from the inventor to re-sell.

c)

The government has recognized your right to a new idea because you made a request and met the requirements.

d)

You have made a law saying no one else can learn about your invention.

30.

Why did the Industrial Revolution affect where people lived?

a)

New inventions took up space in cities, so more people had to move to rural areas.

b)

Farms needed more workers, so people left cities.

c)

Farms needed fewer workers, so people moved to cities.

d)

Trains discovered new parts of the country, so people moved to those places.