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Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following were inventions from the Industrial Revolution (can be more than one correct answer)

a)

Spinning Jenny

b)

Computer

c)

Lightbulb

d)

Airplane

2.

People moved from rural (country) areas to urban (city) areas for which of the following reasons (may be more than one answer):

a)

more job opportunities

b)

better pay

c)

more land

3.

What kind of immigrants entered the US at Ellis Island?

(a)  

4.

Organization with the goal of improving working conditions

a)

capital

b)

trade union

c)

capitalism

d)

socialism

5.

Which economic system calls for public ownership or control of property and natural resources?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Mixed Economy

c)

Socialism

d)

Syndicalism

6.

Settlement houses helped or hurt immigrants?

a)

helped

b)

hurt

7.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of capitalism?

a)

government control of the economy

b)

competition and consumer sovereignty

c)

private ownership

d)

pursuit of personal profit

8.

Which social class grew the most because of the Industrial Revolution?

a)

Wealthy

b)

Upper class

c)

Middle class

d)

Working class

9.

Immigrants from __________ would have arrived at Angel Island?

a)

Ireland

b)

Germany

c)

Italy

d)

China

10.

This was the most common way to ship goods across country during the Industrial Revolution:

a)

Cars

b)

Boats

c)

Railroads

d)

Airplanes

11.

Which phrase best illustrates the theory of laissez-faire capitalism?

a)

the state establishing production quotas

b)

decisions related to distribution being based on community traditions

c)

central planning committees setting prices on goods

d)

businesses operating with little government regulation

12.

Political and economic theory where the means of production owned by the government

a)

communism

b)

strike

c)

tenement

d)

proletariat

13.

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

a)

interchangeable parts

b)

means od prouction

c)

entrepreneurs

d)

assembly line

14.

Who started the use of the assembly line and used it in automobile manufacturing in Detroit, Michigan?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

William "Boss" Tweed

c)

Henry Ford

d)

John D. Rockefeller

15.

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?

a)

Upper class

b)

Religious extremists

c)

Working class

d)

Farmers

16.

Which word is used to describe the rapid growth of cities during the Industrial Revolution?

a)

Decriminalization

b)

Capitalism

c)

Gentrification

d)

Urbanization

17.

Better pay, more land, and religious freedom were all examples of __________ factors.

a)

pull

b)

push

18.

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

a)

United States

b)

England

c)

France

d)

Germany