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WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following were inventions from the Industrial Revolution (can be more than one correct answer)
Spinning Jenny
Computer
Lightbulb
Airplane
People moved from rural (country) areas to urban (city) areas for which of the following reasons (may be more than one answer):
more job opportunities
better pay
more land
What kind of immigrants entered the US at Ellis Island?
(a)
Organization with the goal of improving working conditions
capital
trade union
capitalism
socialism
Which economic system calls for public ownership or control of property and natural resources?
Capitalism
Mixed Economy
Socialism
Syndicalism
Settlement houses helped or hurt immigrants?
helped
hurt
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of capitalism?
government control of the economy
competition and consumer sovereignty
private ownership
pursuit of personal profit
Which social class grew the most because of the Industrial Revolution?
Wealthy
Upper class
Middle class
Working class
Immigrants from __________ would have arrived at Angel Island?
Ireland
Germany
Italy
China
This was the most common way to ship goods across country during the Industrial Revolution:
Cars
Boats
Railroads
Airplanes
Which phrase best illustrates the theory of laissez-faire capitalism?
the state establishing production quotas
decisions related to distribution being based on community traditions
central planning committees setting prices on goods
businesses operating with little government regulation
Political and economic theory where the means of production owned by the government
communism
strike
tenement
proletariat
A factory system in which a product is created by a series of workers adding a separate piece of the product until the product is completed
interchangeable parts
means od prouction
entrepreneurs
assembly line
Who started the use of the assembly line and used it in automobile manufacturing in Detroit, Michigan?
Andrew Carnegie
William "Boss" Tweed
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
According to Karl Marx, which group of people in industrial countries must create a revolution, overthrow the existing governments using force if necessary, and then create a new classless society?
Upper class
Religious extremists
Working class
Farmers
Which word is used to describe the rapid growth of cities during the Industrial Revolution?
Decriminalization
Capitalism
Gentrification
Urbanization
Better pay, more land, and religious freedom were all examples of __________ factors.
pull
push
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
United States
England
France
Germany
