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industrial revolution study guide

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen first in Great Britain?

a)

they had natural resources like boats and navigable rivers

b)

easy accessibility trade for canals

c)

vast supplies to build new machines

d)

accessibility from all sea points

2.

How did science and technology change society?

a)

Better communication, easier access to information, more productivity, and higher quality healthcare

b)

facilitating more advance feature

c)

it changed society by the way we communicate, work,the food we eat, and the ways of transportation

3.

    How did the Industrial Revolution change rural life and contribute to the development of cities?

a)

concentrating large numbers of workers and their families in cities,

b)

help lead to shifts in rural populations

c)

gave the ones who didn't have a job to have a job

d)

industrial factories needed bigger workforces,workers and families needed home near by their work

4.

Regarding the Agricultural Revolution: What was Jethro Tull known for?

a)

creating the law of no more child labor

b)

inventing the seed drill

c)

building the cotton gin

d)

having the best vegetables

5.

    How did the Industrial Revolution change how people viewed work?

a)

people worked more in factories and urban areas, rather than farmlands

b)

more easier with the new machines that inventors have been inventing

c)

boring and tiring

6.

 How did the Industrial Revolution change who did the work?

a)

the ones who passed the safety on what not to do so they dont lose a body part

b)

by the people who new how to operate the machines

c)

created an increase in employment opportunities

7.

 How did the Industrial Revolution change how they did the work?

a)

increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.

b)

increase the food population

c)

less people getting killed from the machines

8.

. How did the Industrial Revolution change where they did the work?

a)

shifted societies from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products no longer made by hand but by machines.

b)

the machines were built in factories instead of doing the work at home

c)

it allowed them to leave their house and work in a whole different enviorment

9.

    How did the Steam Engine affect industrialization?

a)

increased food population and made it easier to work with minimum resources

b)

it increased goods production in places where water power was not available

c)

changed the way people lived

10.

What was James Watt known for?

a)

inventing the steam enginge

b)

improving the steam engine in a few months

c)

father of the industrial revolution

11.

who invented the spinning jenny

a)

james hargeaves

1764

b)

john smith 1863

c)

romeo diaz 1765

d)

jacob heagaves 1900

12.

what year was the spinning jenny invented

a)

1900

b)

1765

c)

1863

d)

1764

13.

what does the spinning jenny do

a)

spins james heagaves daughter in circles

b)

spins the donkey around inside the barn to make the factory work

c)

spins 16 threads at a time

d)

spins the milk bottles after the cows are milk

14.

who invented the water frame

a)

james watt

b)

richard arkwright

c)

pablo escobar

15.

what year was the water frame invented

a)

1769

b)

1876

c)

1934

d)

1467

16.

what does the water frame do

a)

picture frame call a water frame with no water

b)

snow globe picture frame filled with water

c)

creates a beautiful illusion of a water fall

d)

spins large amount of cotton

17.

what was the invention samuel crompton created

a)

cromptons mule

b)

spinning jenny

c)

the seed drill

18.

what year was cromptons mule invented

a)

1779

b)

1863

c)

1764

d)

1769

19.

who invented the power loom

a)

james watt

b)

james heagaves

c)

sammuel crompton

d)

edmund cartwright

20.

what year did edmund cartwright invent the epower loom

a)

1769

b)

1764

c)

1785

d)

1779

21.

who invented the cotton gin

a)

jame watt

b)

eli whitney

c)

edmung cartwright

d)

james heagaves

22.

what year did eli whitney invent the cotton gin

a)

1779

b)

1769

c)

1785

d)

1764

23.

    What were the Factory Acts?

a)

prohibited any child under the age of 9 from working, limited work of children age 9 to 13 to 48 hours, and required them to attend school part-time

b)

the rules of the factory

c)

increasing the child labor laws

24.

What are unions?

a)

bringing down the borders of segrigations

b)

an organization formed by workers who join together and use their strength to have a voice in their workplace.

c)

nations coming together

25.

what is capitalism

a)

increasing goods from each country by trade

b)

trade by monarchy

c)

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.

26.

what is socialism

a)

for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources.

b)

to be freindly with the community, cities or states

c)

to be outgoing

d)

communicative talker

27.

What is communism

a)

a political theory from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading, which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

b)

to govern or rule by state or country

c)

to have power

d)

to have control

28.

 How did the conditions created by the Industrial Revolution change the way people saw the world?

a)

the oppourtunities that they have

b)

realised that they have a tons of options on what they want

c)

increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.