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WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution 2
Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 30mins
Who Invented The Telegraph?
Samual Morse
Don McLean
Thomas Edison
Stevie Wonder
What city had an advantage because the Erie Canal?
New York
New Jersey
Ohio
Michigan
Congress finally agreed to pay to have a telegraph system ran from _________ to _________.
Baltimore to Washington
Washington to Virginia
Virginia to South Carolina
What changed the way that news and information was spread?
The telephone
The Telegraph
The railroad
The Mill
What did Elisha Otis invent?
Play station 3
A rocket
Elevators' breaks
An elevator
Henry Bessemer __________ a way to turn _________ into steel.
(a)
This invention helped architects design taller buildings. It allowed people to travel vertically from a floor to another.
The Desk
The Bed
The Elevator
The Staircase
Who invented a quicker and cheaper way to make steel?
John D. Rockefeller
Henry Bessemer
George Pullman
Nikolaus Otto
Who patented the telephone?
Henry Bessemer
George Pullman
Thomas Alva Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
This helped US steel production grow
kerosene porcess
air brakes
Bessemer process
West process
What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?
To make China more powerful.
To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.
To make Native Americans move off their land.
To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America.
In what town did the Union Pacific Railroad begin?
Omaha, Nebraska
Promontory, Utah
Topeka, Kansas
Des Moines, Iowa
The railroad companies hired workers from other countries because _______________________.
they didn't have enough money.
many Americans were still fighting in the Civil War.
the immigrants wanted something fun to do.
they could make the tools needed for the job.
What was a challenge the Central Pacific workers faced while building the Transcontinental Railroad?
floods
mountains
blizzards
hurricanes
What does transcontinental mean?
to travel across a continent
to travel from one continent to another continent
to travel north and south
to travel to transport goods
Who Made the first plow?
Oliver
Case I H
John Deere
Big bud
What did Cyrus develop?
a comet
a wheat fertilizer
a tractor
the mechanical reaper
It also ___________________the number of field hands needed for the harvest.
increased
decreased
What is a canal?
An animal with humps to ride across the desert.
Mountains that are thousands of feet high
Man-made waterways
Digging
The Eerie Canal connected what two bodies of water?
Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
Atlantic Ocean and Hudson River
Pacific Ocean and Lake Eerie
Hudson River and Lake Eerie
What was the name of Peter Cooper's locomotive?
Tom Thumb
Clermont
Thomas the Train
Singer
Identify advantages the railroad provided.
Faster and cheaper then traveling by land
Improved trade
Improved settlement
Easier to travel up river
Who invented the steel plow which improved farming?
John Deere
Cyrus McCorminck
Isaac Singer
Peter Cooper
_________ patented modern barbed wire.
Alexander Graham Bell
Elias Howe
Joseph Glidden
Elias Howe invented the _________.
sewing machine
elevator brakes
barbed wire
Extra Credit: What is special about the last spike of the transcontinental railroad?
(a)
Which of the following best describes the assembly line manufacturing process?
Each product is fully manufactured one at a time
Products are made one step at a time as they pass down a line
Products are manufactured by robots
Products are made by people who stand in a line
What was the name of Henry Ford's first successful assembly line car?
F150
Model X
Model T
Mustang
Why was the Model T so successful?
It was very fast
It was affordable by the average family
It was reliable
It was a convertible
The Wright Brothers invented the __________.
light bulb
airplane
telephone
What did their plane look like?
People used gas to light their homes before the invention of the electric light.
True
False
What invention of Thomas Edison do we use the most often?
the phonograph
the telephone
the printing press
the light bulb
Most people immediately think of ... when they think of Thomas Edison.
Printer
light bulb
telephone
computer
Taking pictures in 1878 required
a heavy camera, chemicals and a tripod
a light camera and flash
a phone with a camera
What was George Eastman's camera first called?
Eastman camera
Kodak camera
George camera
Why do you think George Eastman is one of the "fathers of photograph"?
He invented the first portable camera.
His camera was simple to use.
It was not very expensive like the cameras before.
He invented the first iphone.
