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WorksheetsTransportation and Industrial Revolution
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
Transportation is important to the growth of a nation' what?
Dogs
Religion
Trees
Economy
During the Transportation Revolution, Transportation underwent a massive ______ __ __________
Change in Roads
Change in Technology
Decrease in Speed
Decrease in Cars
Which of the following is not one of new technologies from the Transportation Revolution?
Steam Ship
Canals
Cars
Trains
What is a canal ?
An Artificial, or man made, Waterway
A connection between two bodies of water
A hole in the ground
Another name for a tunnel
All of the following are needed to trigger an Industrial Revolution except ....
A Large Empire
Free Market Enterprise
A Large Unemployed Population
Coal
What was the Industrial Revolution?
The Overthrow of Our Robotic Overlords
A Rapid Change in the Methods of Wealth
A Rapid Change in the Methods of Production
The Overthrow of the Merchant Class
Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
Netherlands
Scotland
Switzerland
Great Britain
Which of three major requirements for the Industrial Revolution does this map show?
Resources
Farmland
Free Market Enterprise
Urbanization
How many waves of Industrialization were there?
Three (3)
Six (6)
Two (2)
Nine (9)
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in the United States?
The South
The Midwest
The Northeast
The West
This picture of Irish Canal workers shows how _______ and _______ were connected.
Industrialization
the Lumber Industry
Immigration
Men's Fashion
What does Free Enterprise Market mean?
Economy where private business operate with no government intervention
Economy in which privately owned business have freedom to operate with large government intervention
Economy in which all businesses are owned by the government
Economy in which privately owned business have freedom to operate with limited government intervention
What were the two most visible effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Urbanization
Enlarged Coal Mines
Factories
Increased Rural Population
What Pennsylvania city became an important center of Industrialization during the American Industrial Revolution?
Altoona
Erie
Pittsburgh
Johnstown
In 1785, the first steamship in the world sailed from ___________ to Burlington, New Jersey.
London
Antwerp
Philadelphia
New York
Urbanization is defined as the process of what?
An Area becoming more City like
An Area becoming more Farm like
Expanding Suburbs
Growing trees
____________ and ____________ often follow each other during the Industrial Revolution
Horses
Urbanization
Disease
Industrialization
What do we call someone who came from a different country , but lives in this country
Alien
Immigrant
Emigrant
Friend
Xenophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Crocodiles
Races
People from other countries
Religion
During the Industrial Revolution, what type of cramped housing did most workers live in?
Apartments
Skyscrapers
Condos
Tenement
What major movement helped make cities healthier and cleaner
The Sanitation Movement
The Porta Potty Movement
The Sweeper Movement
The Auto Revolution
What is Collective Bargaining?
When a Labor Union negotiates with bosses for wages and conditions
When a Labor Union negotiates with bosses for more food
When the Government and Industrialists negotiate wages and conditons
When the Government and Industrialists cooperate to put down a strike
A Labor Union is defined as what?
Group of workers that Collectively Bargain
Group of Workers that Hang Out
Group of Workers that Work Together
Group of Workers that Support Each Other.
Which of the following is not a product of the Labor Unions effort to improve conditions in society
The Weekend
Safety Guidelines
Works Progress Administration
8-Hour Work Day
What is a monopoly?
An Economy where two companies are the only producers of an item
An Economy with many producers of an item
An Economy where one company is the only producer of an item
An Economy where is naturally produced
Which of the follow is not a principle of Capitalism?
Laissez Faire
Supply and Demand
Equal Distribution of Resources
Free Consumer Choice
Socialism is the political and economic theory that advocates that goods and services should be distributed what?
Unequally
Linearly
Equally
Orderly
In Karl Marx's theory, what are the two major societal groups that exist in the world?
Les Personnes
The Proletariat
The Clergy
The Bourgeois
What Welsh-born American was the first Industrialist to experiment with Socialist policies
Adam Lewis
Aleskander Nowak
Leon Czolgosz
Robert Owen
In 1776, Adam Smith published what book that argued for Laissez Faire and against mercantilism?
The Declaration of Independence
The Wealth of Nations
Utopia
Capital
