WorksheetsWorld Studies - Industrial Revolution (Non-Essay)
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which nation, nicknamed the "workshop of the world" became the first highly industrialized nation in the world?
a)
Great Britain
b)
United States
c)
China
d)
France
2.
Before the Industrial Revolution, which of the following statements was true about the Domestic System?
a)
Families mostly did subsistence farming on their home to survive.
b)
About 40% of people lived in cities.
c)
Infant Mortality was low, with few infant births.
d)
Life expectency was high.
3.
Which of the following was NOT an element of the Agricultural Revolution?
a)
The enclosure movement made it easier for families to farm because they could use shared, public land for farming purposes.
b)
Selective breeding of crops, crop rotation, and improved farm machinery led to more productive yields and more food.
c)
Healthier (and more food) led to higher life expectency.
d)
High yields and equipment meant less people were need on the farms, opening up workers to work in cities.
4.
Which of the following factors was NOT critical to the rapid Industrial Development of the early 1800's?
a)
Regulations placed on business owners by governments and labor unions addressed problems of laissez faire capitalism.
b)
The factory system of workers and machines in a single location.
c)
James Watt's steam engine allowed engines to not be tied to water power.
d)
Methods of production like specialized single-task labor, assembly lines, and automation.
5.
Place the developments in the proper order as small towns become industrial centers.
a)
1. There is access to waterways for water power.
2. steam power enables factories to be built away from water sources
3. Industrialization increases rapidly
4. Industrialization leads to other effects like pollution and crowded living conditions.
b)
1. Industrialization increases rapidly
2. steam power enables factories to be built away from water sources
3. There is access to waterways for water power.
4. Industrialization leads to other effects like pollution and crowded living conditions.
c)
1. Industrialization increases rapidly
2. There is access to waterways for water power.
3. steam power enables factories to be built away from water sources
4. Industrialization leads to other effects like pollution and crowded living conditions.
d)
1. steam power enables factories to be built away from water sources
2. There is access to waterways for water power.
3. Industrialization increases rapidly
4. Industrialization leads to other effects like pollution and crowded living conditions.
6.
Which system is driven by the idea that entrepreneurs innovate and run businesses, and the invisible hand of supply and demand dictates price?
a)
Capitalism
b)
Communism
c)
Socialism
d)
Mercantilism
7.
Which system theorized that a discontented, underpaid, and over-burdened labor class would rise up and overthrow business owners and government to redistribute wealth equally amongst everyone in a single class society?
a)
Capitalism
b)
Communism
c)
Socialism
d)
Mercantilism
8.
What are the four factors of production in a Capitalist market economy?
a)
Capital, Natural Resources, Labor, Entrepreneurship
b)
Proletariat, Bourgeoisie, Capital, Labor
c)
Entreprenuers, Business Owners, Labor, Resources
d)
Workers, Raw Materials, Proletariat, Capital
9.
Which pre-industrial economic system depended upon having control of colonial possessions, and nations looked to obtain raw materials, create manufactured goods, and have trade surpluses with other nations?
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Communism
c)
Socialism
d)
Capitalism
10.
Which of these things is not like the others - which of these things just doesn't belong?
a)
Laissez Faire
b)
Social Darwinism
c)
Communism
d)
Capitalism
11.
Which of the following applied evolution's concept of "survival of the fittest" to human society?
a)
Communism
b)
Social Darwinism
c)
Transcendentalism
d)
Evolution
12.
Which means that the availability of products and services help determine the price? The greater the number of goods available, the lower the price.
a)
Supply
b)
Demand
c)
Capitalism
d)
Equilibrium Point
13.
Which means that the number of consumers that want or need a product determine the price? The greater the competition to get the product, the higher the price.
a)
Supply
b)
Demand
c)
Capitalism
d)
Equilibrium Point
14.
Which of the following is FALSE about communism?
a)
Marx called the working class the Proletariat
b)
Marx called the wealthy class the Bourgeoisie.
c)
In Marx's "Communist Manifesto," he predicted that a government run by a single class society of workers would share the means of production.
d)
Marx predicted that communist governments would be driven by competition and innovation.
15.
When a population shifts from rural life to city life, this is known by what term?
a)
Urbanization
b)
Industrialization
c)
Modernization
d)
Laissez Faire
16.
Which of the following was NOT a negative impact of urbanization and industrialization?
a)
Child labor robbing kids of childhood, working up to 14 hour days.
b)
Tightly Packed work and living spaces, with disease spreading quickly
c)
Air and water quality issues because of pollution from factories causing unhealthy environments.
d)
Poor food quality due to a lack of decent farm equipment, leading to shorter life spans and high infant mortality.
17.
Which cause and effect relationship DOES NOT make sense?
a)
The agricultural revolution's innovations made it more possible for more laborers to work in the city.
b)
The downsides to laissez faire business conditions led to capitalism.
c)
The ideas of communism were embraced by mostly poor workers in society.
d)
The innovation of the steam engine eventually led to steam, gas, and electric powered innovations in industry and travel.
18.
Innovators and Inventors: Who came up with a process to create low cost, light, and strong steel - which along with the Otis Elevator - made building high rise buildings practical in cities.
a)
Henry Bessemer
b)
Henry Ford
c)
James Otis
d)
John Deere
19.
Innovators and Inventors: Who created an efficient internal combustion engine, which led to the development of cars and all other manner of vehicles.
a)
Nikolaus Otto
b)
Henry Ford
c)
James Hargreaves
d)
Cyrus McCormick
20.
Innovators and Inventors: Who made a massive improvement to create an efficient steam engine in 1763, leading eventually to Robert Fulton's steam boat and to Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive?
a)
Nikolaus Otto
b)
James Watt
c)
Carl Benz
d)
Elias Howe
21.
Innovators and Inventors: Who enhanced human understanding of how the microscopic world impacts human health by explaining how diseases transfer from one person to another through Germ Theory?
a)
Robert Lister
b)
Louis Pasteur
c)
Sigmund Freud
d)
Ivan Pavlov
22.
Innovators and Inventors: Who is considered the father of modern psychiatry - who along with Ivan Pavlov - tried to understand human motivations and behavior?
a)
Robert Lister
b)
Louis Pasteur
c)
Sigmund Freud
d)
Werner Von Siemens
100 %
