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WorksheetsThe Industrial Revolution REVIEW
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
Capitalism fueled industrialization by
Ensuring all workers received high wages
Encouraging entrepreneurs to establish businesses
Giving the country many natural resources
Requiring inventors to file patents
In the United States during the late 19th century, what was one effect of industrialization?
An increase in urbanization
A decrease in immigration to the United States
An increase in demand for handicraft goods
A decrease in child labor
Which innovation extended the number of hours in a day that Americans could work and play?
Bessemer Process
Telegraph technology
Refrigeration
Electricity
Why was the formation of labor unions an effect of U.S. industrialization in the late 1800s?
Factory owners set up labor unions in order to control their large workforce.
Union were needed to guarantee a steady supply of workers.
Union membership was required for employment in new industries.
Unions organized industrial workers to protest unsafe working conditions and long workdays.
In the late 19th century, industrialization led to harsh working conditions in the United States. Which policies of the U.S. government allowed such conditions to develop and later led to the growth of labor unions to correct abuses of workers?
Antitrust policies toward monopolies
Isolationist policies regarding international alliance
Laissez faire policies toward big business
Imperialist policies regarding territorial expansion
The Industrial Revolution began in which country?
France
Great Britain
United States
Japan
Which of the following was the first industry to be impacted by the Industrial Revolution?
Textile
Steel
Electrical appliances
Automobile
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Industrial Revolution?
An increasing number of people who worked in factories
An increasing number of people who lived in cities
An increasing number of people who worked on family farms
An increasing number of people who left family farms
Industrialization began in northeastern Europe, but later spread to the rest of the world. This expansion was the result of
Better working conditions
Improved transportation
A ban on child labor
Reliance on a family-based economy
To what type of area did people move during the Industrial Revolution?
Independent
Cottage
Urban
Rural
What was the name of the movement in which individuals bought sections of land and fenced it off?
Enclosure
Capitalist
Standardized
Fielding
Which of the following is a French term that means to "let do," "let alone," or “leave it alone?”
laissez faire
Je ne comprends pas.
Parlez-vous francais?
Je t'aime.
Industrialization began in northeastern Europe but later spread to the rest of the world. This expansion was the result of
Reliance on a family-based economy
A ban on child labor
Better working conditions
Improved transportation
Adam Smith
steam engine
Henry Bessemer
Bessemer Process
Laissez-faire
Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
The Wealth of Nations
James Watt
no government interference
proleteriat
style of economy was based on competition, self interest and supply/demand
socialism
business owners during the Industrial Revolution
communism
factory workers during the Industrial Revolution
bourgeoisie
style of economy based on spreading wealth more evenly and treating all people fairly
capitalism
style of economy where goods are owned in common and available to all as needed
