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WorksheetsYear 9 Industrial Revolution
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 15mins
What centuries did the Industrial Revolution Occur?
17th-19th
18th-20th
16th-19th
17th-20th
What revolution was a major cause of the Industrial Revolution?
American Revolution
French Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
Russian Revolution
What was the main source of fuel?
Coal
Petrol
Wood
Diesel
What law allowed private ownership and the ability to section off land?
Enclosure Acts
Factory Acts
Land owner Acts
Fence Acts
What was the most popular job type during the Industrial Revolution?
Factory/Manufacturing
Train driver
Farmer
Coal Miner
Why were factories originally built along flowing rivers?
Keep them clean
Dump Waste
Power Machinery
Coincidence
What was the main reason for poor housing and high crime rates?
(a)
Where did people in the cities put their garbage?
Streets
Bins
Floors in their house
Rubbish tip
Name of the buildings in which dozens of families lived?
(a)
Where did the rich live?
Near their factories
Suburbs away from the slums
In the centre of the city
On farms
What age did children start working in factories?
3
7
9
5
Why were children seen as good workers in factories?
small and agile to clean machines
they were quiet
they did not need to be paid much
they weren't seen as good workers
Why did children work during the Industrial Revolution
families needed money
for fun
no one else could do the jobs they did
they didn't want to go to school
Who invented the steam engine?
James Wind
Thomas Watts
James Watts
Thomas Wind
What was the name of the laws that ensured children under nine could not work.
Factory Acts
Children Schooling Act
Rights for Kids Act
Welfare Act
Who invented the light bulb?
(a)
What product was made using the first every assembly line?
Benz Patent Motor Car
Ford Model-T
Telephone
Locomotive
The name of the Slave Trade that accounted for the bulk of raw material harvesting?
The Pacific Slave Trade
The American Slave Trade
The African Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade
What criminal punishment became more prevalent during the Industrial revolution?
Taxes
Transportation to penal colonies
Electric Chair
Community Service
What is a Locomotive?
Plane
Car
Train
Engine
What is is called when people move from rural areas to the cities?
(a)
What is the name for the floating prison ships being used at this time?
Middle Passage
Prison on Water
Hulks
Tenement
What year were the Factory Act introduced?
1833
1834
1897
1806
What year was slavery abolished in the British Empire?
1845
1833
1856
1837
What year were the Luddite Riots?
1811
1830
1824
1857
