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Industrial Revolution - 2 - Grade 10

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In 1870, the Britain work force formed trade union to improve the quality of their living. How did they urge the government to meet their demand?

a)

By using a violence toward the employer

b)

By using a work stoppage

c)

By a vast migration to countryside

2.

What is the reason behind a vast migration from the rural area to the city?

a)

Cholera spread around the villages

b)

Health issue in the countryside

c)

The lack of job and land in the countryside

3.

What are some major bad impacts of the vast migration to the European industrialized cities?

a)

over population, lots of income and hazards around dwellings

b)

over population, health issue and hazards around dwellings

c)

over population, lots of income and better health facility

4.

What was the main cause of cholera

a)

Poor tunnel

b)

A dirty living

c)

Dirty drainage

5.

The urban reformers are ..

a)

City dwellers who requested changes

b)

City dwellers that worked forcibly

c)

City dwellers that created hazarad

6.

What was the following action of the government to the demand of the reformers?

a)

Closing some factories

b)

Creating a board health

c)

Creating hazards free hospitals

7.

There are two essentials improvements of the public health of the European city. What are they?

a)

The board of health and healthier industrial environment

b)

Health facilities and trade union

c)

Tunnel and aqueduct for urban water and exit for polluted water

8.

Mention the newly found mass society structure!

a)

The upper middle class, the middle class, the white-collar workers and the lower class

b)

The upper middle class, the middle class, and the white-collar workers

c)

The upper middle class, the elite and the middle class

9.

Traveling salespeople and book keepers are occupations that became the image of the..

a)

the white-collar

b)

the elite

c)

the middle class

10.

Why did the elite class of people had a big impact/influence to the society?

(Choose two answers)

a)

Because they held 30-40 percent of the total wealth

b)

They built sewage and tunnel for urban dwellers

c)

They helped the government to stop cholera

d)

They were the leaders in the government and military

11.

What are the jobs for the working classes?

a)

Day laborers

& domestic servant

b)

Military force & leaders

c)

Lawyer & doctor

12.

One example of improvement brought by the reformers is

a)

Higher birthrate

b)

Higher wages

c)

Higher consumer costs

13.

The urban working class consisted of _______ and _______.

a)

Skilled artisan, land holding peasant & farm laborers

b)

Skilled artisan, semi skilled artisan & and unskilled artisan

c)

Skilled artisan, semi skilled laborers & farm laborers.

14.

What did the unskilled laborers do?

a)

They became a day laborer

b)

They became a lawyer

c)

They became an artisan

15.

Member of the working class are

a)

Land holding peasant, farm laborers & crop traders

b)

Land holding peasant, farm laborers & land lords

c)

Land holding peasant, farm laborers & sharecropper