WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 30mins
What did Thomas Newcomen invent?
Steam Engine
Cotton Gin
Assembly Line
Vulcanized Rubber
What did Eli Whitney invent?
Steam Engine
Cotton Gin
Assembly Line
Vulcanized Rubber
What did Charles Goodyear invent?
Steam Engine
Cotton Gin
Assembly Line
Vulcanized Rubber
What did Samuel Morse invent?
Radio
Telegraph
Incandescent Lightbulb
Telephone
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
Telegraph
Radio
Incandescent Lightbulb
Telephone
What did Thomas Edison invent?
Radio
Telegraph
Incandescent Lightbulb
Telephone
What did Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invent?
Modern Automobile
Radio
Airplane
Assembly Line
What did Guglielmo Marconi invent?
Modern Automobile
Radio
Airplane
Assembly Line
What did Wilbur and Orville Wright invent?
Modern Automobile
Radio
Airplane
Assembly Line
What did Henry Ford invent?
Modern Automobile
Radio
Airplane
Assembly Line
What happened first?
Building the Erie Canal
Connecting the Transcontinental Railroad
Beginning of World War I
Building the Cumberland Road
What event happened last?
Building the Cumberland Road
Building the Erie Canal
Connecting the Transitional Railroad
Beginning of World War I
True or False: The Erie Canal was built before the Cumberland Road.
True
False
True or False: The building of the Cumberland Road and the Erie Canal was built before the connecting of the Transcontinental Railroad.
True
False
True or False: The First Entertainment Broadcast over the radio was after WWI.
True
False
What helped more people travel from the East Coast to the West Coast without changing forms of transportation?
Assembly Line
Airplane
Modern Automobile
Transcontinental Railroad
The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to Lake Erie near New York City making New York.......?
cheaper and smaller
richer and smaller
cheaper and bigger
richer and bigger
What had to get taller because more people were working in cities and space was limited?
Barbed Wire
Wagons
Buildings
Modern Automobiles
True or False: The telegraph allowed people to use a code to transmit messages across the country almost instantly, news traveled much faster.
True
False
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.
True
False
What was the purpose of most inventions used in factories during the Industrial Revolution?
To make work easier for workers
To make life harder for farmers
To create more free time
To make work more efficient and make more money
Which of the following inventions was the earliest?
Barbed wire
Steam engine
Radio
Incandescent lightbulb
Which of the following inventions was NOT created for agriculture?
Assembly line
Steel plow
Grain elevator
Mechanical reaper
Which of the following was a benefit of using incandescent lightbulbs in homes?
Fewer house fires
More electricity
More strain on the eyes
No heat from the bulbs
Which of the following did not have to be invented first so that we would have modern cars?
Vulcanized rubber
Steam engine
Incandescent lightbulb
Internal combustion engine
Which of the following help close off the frontier?
Steel plow
Grain elevator
Barbed wire
Cumberland Road
Which of the following statements about the Erie Canal is NOT true?
The Erie Canal was 363 miles long.
The Erie Canal connected the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico.
The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
The Erie Canal was paid for by the New York State Government.
Which of the following was one of the problems that vulcanized rubber fixed?
Natural rubber was too rare, so an artificial kind had to be created.
Natural rubber was too expensive, so vulcanizing made it cheaper.
Natural rubber was too flexible, so vulcanizing made it harder.
Natural rubber would fall apart with changing weather, so vulcanizing made it last longer.
What does it mean to patent something?
You've thought of an idea for the first time and written it down.
You bought the idea from the inventor to re-sell.
The government has recognized your right to a new idea because you made a request and met the requirements.
You have made a law saying no one else can learn about your invention.
Why did the Industrial Revolution affect where people lived?
New inventions took up space in cities, so more people had to move to rural areas.
Farms needed more workers, so people left cities.
Farms needed fewer workers, so people moved to cities.
Trains discovered new parts of the country, so people moved to those places.
