WorksheetsThe Industrial Revolution
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
True or False. The Rural and Urban population increased from 1850 to 1880.
True
False
What word describes when people move from rural areas to big cities?
Citification
Urbanizatiion
Expansion
Movement
What powered factories during the mid-late 1800's during the Industrial Revolution?
Electricity
Nuclear energy
Solar energy
Waterpower
What is another word for cloth and fabric?
Mills
Enterprise
Textiles
Agrarian
Where region of the United States did the Industrial Revolution begin?
North
South
East
West
Which of these was NOT one of the reasons the Industrial Revolution began in the North?
The soil was poor
Increase in slave labor
Farming was difficult
Access to waterways
What countries were involved in the War of 1812?
United States & Great Britain
Great Britain & France
United States & France
Great Britain & France
What was an effect of the British blockade on the United States?
Increase in diseases
Decrease in factories
Decrease in textiles
Increase in manufacturing
Which geographic factor helped the United States to become a major industrial power in the early 19th century?
abundant natural resources like iron ore, coal, timber and water
small land area, making it easier to concentrate economic activities
the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains protected America from attack
good soil for growing cotton in the states of the Lower South
