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Transportation and Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Transportation is important to the growth of a nation' what?

a)

Dogs

b)

Religion

c)

Trees

d)

Economy

2.

During the Transportation Revolution, Transportation underwent a massive ______ __ __________

a)

Change in Roads

b)

Change in Technology

c)

Decrease in Speed

d)

Decrease in Cars

3.

Which of the following is not one of new technologies from the Transportation Revolution?

a)

Steam Ship

b)

Canals

c)

Cars

d)

Trains

4.

What is a canal ?

a)

An Artificial, or man made, Waterway

b)

A connection between two bodies of water

c)

A hole in the ground

d)

Another name for a tunnel

5.

All of the following are needed to trigger an Industrial Revolution except ....

a)

A Large Empire

b)

Free Market Enterprise

c)

A Large Unemployed Population

d)

Coal

6.

What was the Industrial Revolution?

a)

The Overthrow of Our Robotic Overlords

b)

A Rapid Change in the Methods of Wealth

c)

A Rapid Change in the Methods of Production

d)

The Overthrow of the Merchant Class

7.

Where did the Industrial Revolution start?

a)

Netherlands

b)

Scotland

c)

Switzerland

d)

Great Britain

8.

Which of three major requirements for the Industrial Revolution does this map show?

a)

Resources

b)

Farmland

c)

Free Market Enterprise

d)

Urbanization

9.

How many waves of Industrialization were there?

a)

Three (3)

b)

Six (6)

c)

Two (2)

d)

Nine (9)

10.

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in the United States?

a)

The South

b)

The Midwest

c)

The Northeast

d)

The West

11.

This picture of Irish Canal workers shows how _______ and _______ were connected.

a)

Industrialization

b)

the Lumber Industry

c)

Immigration

d)

Men's Fashion

12.

What does Free Enterprise Market mean?

a)

Economy where private business operate with no government intervention

b)

Economy in which privately owned business have freedom to operate with large government intervention

c)

Economy in which all businesses are owned by the government

d)

Economy in which privately owned business have freedom to operate with limited government intervention

13.

What were the two most visible effects of the Industrial Revolution?

a)

Urbanization

b)

Enlarged Coal Mines

c)

Factories

d)

Increased Rural Population

14.

What Pennsylvania city became an important center of Industrialization during the American Industrial Revolution?

a)

Altoona

b)

Erie

c)

Pittsburgh

d)

Johnstown

15.

In 1785, the first steamship in the world sailed from ___________ to Burlington, New Jersey.

a)

London

b)

Antwerp

c)

Philadelphia

d)

New York

16.

Urbanization is defined as the process of what?

a)

An Area becoming more City like

b)

An Area becoming more Farm like

c)

Expanding Suburbs

d)

Growing trees

17.

____________ and ____________ often follow each other during the Industrial Revolution

a)

Horses

b)

Urbanization

c)

Disease

d)

Industrialization

18.

What do we call someone who came from a different country , but lives in this country

a)

Alien

b)

Immigrant

c)

Emigrant

d)

Friend

19.

Xenophobia is the irrational fear of what?

a)

Crocodiles

b)

Races

c)

People from other countries

d)

Religion

20.

During the Industrial Revolution, what type of cramped housing did most workers live in?

a)

Apartments

b)

Skyscrapers

c)

Condos

d)

Tenement

21.

What major movement helped make cities healthier and cleaner

a)

The Sanitation Movement

b)

The Porta Potty Movement

c)

The Sweeper Movement

d)

The Auto Revolution

22.

What is Collective Bargaining?

a)

When a Labor Union negotiates with bosses for wages and conditions

b)

When a Labor Union negotiates with bosses for more food

c)

When the Government and Industrialists negotiate wages and conditons

d)

When the Government and Industrialists cooperate to put down a strike

23.

A Labor Union is defined as what?

a)

Group of workers that Collectively Bargain

b)

Group of Workers that Hang Out

c)

Group of Workers that Work Together

d)

Group of Workers that Support Each Other.

24.

Which of the following is not a product of the Labor Unions effort to improve conditions in society

a)

The Weekend

b)

Safety Guidelines

c)

Works Progress Administration

d)

8-Hour Work Day

25.

What is a monopoly?

a)

An Economy where two companies are the only producers of an item

b)

An Economy with many producers of an item

c)

An Economy where one company is the only producer of an item

d)

An Economy where is naturally produced

26.

Which of the follow is not a principle of Capitalism?

a)

Laissez Faire

b)

Supply and Demand

c)

Equal Distribution of Resources

d)

Free Consumer Choice

27.

Socialism is the political and economic theory that advocates that goods and services should be distributed what?

a)

Unequally

b)

Linearly

c)

Equally

d)

Orderly

28.

In Karl Marx's theory, what are the two major societal groups that exist in the world?

a)

Les Personnes

b)

The Proletariat

c)

The Clergy

d)

The Bourgeois

29.

What Welsh-born American was the first Industrialist to experiment with Socialist policies

a)

Adam Lewis

b)

Aleskander Nowak

c)

Leon Czolgosz

d)

Robert Owen

30.

In 1776, Adam Smith published what book that argued for Laissez Faire and against mercantilism?

a)

The Declaration of Independence

b)

The Wealth of Nations

c)

Utopia

d)

Capital