WorksheetsUnit 3 Industrial Revolution Test 25
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
The Industrial Revolution was a transformation from a rural handicraft economy to an economy:
The idea of using extra money (capital) to invest and to make more money is called:
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, energy to produce goods came from people, and on occasion, livestock. What new energy source drastically altered systems of production and distribution?
D. Nuclear Energy
Which of the following does NOT describe life before the Industrial Revolution?
rural, handicraft economy
people made their own clothes
people grew their own food
most people migrated to distant countries
Which of the following was NOT an environmental factor that helped Britain industrialize first?
Which of the following was NOT a part of Britain's financial system that helped launch new industrial ventures?
Which of the following is NOT a way that farming changed during the Agricultural Revolution?
Which of the following is NOT true of the enclosure movement?
Which of the following is NOT true of the steam engine after James Watt improved its design?
Which of the following countries was the first to industrialize?
Extra money that can be invested in business is called:
B. stocks
The movement of people from rural areas to the cities is called:
Which of the following is NOT one of the abuses children faced at work during the 1800s?
Which of the following is NOT a problem with living conditions faced by the industrial working class?
Which of the following is NOT one of the positive effects of the Industrial Revolution?
True or False: Steam and electric power helped accelerate the pace of change during Industrial Revolution
True or False: The growing commercial class in Europe (manufacturers, merchants etc.) was persecuted (looked down upon) by their governments.
Why did the population increase greatly during the Industrial Revolution?
People ate better
improved hygiene and sanitation
improved medical care
All of the above
Which of the following in NOT a reason England began to industrialize before other nations?
A. natural resources-coal & iron
Which of the following is NOT an immediate effect of the industrial revolution?
B. Hitler's rise to power
This man's invention of the “Cotton Gin” separated seeds from cotton doing the work of 50 men.
A government tax on imports is called a:
Working conditions in factories were often horrendous. What, then, attracted people into cities to work in these industrial factories?
A government grant to an inventor, giving for a specified period of time the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invented device, process, or the like is called:
C. a diphthong
d. All of the others
The huge increase in food production due to improved farming methods that preceded the industrial revolution came to be known as the:
This man’s improvement of the steam engine, powered machinery in factories, and revolutionized transportation with trains and steamboats:
Taking the complex job of assembling a product broken down into a series of small tasks is called:
Which of the following in NOT a reason England began to industrialize before other nations?
A. natural resources-coal & iron
The Industrial Revolution led to great changes in human communities. What process occurred as a direct result of the demand for industrial workers, the loss of agricultural work due to enclosure movement, and eventually led to new forms of community?
Urbanization
ruralization
Constipation
capitalization
What type of data can we use as evidence to understand direct effects of the Industrial Revolution on human communities?
The percentage of agricultural workers in the eighteenth century as compared to today
The speed and distance of travel in the 1700's as compared to today.
The change in the last two hundred years in how humans perceive time
The increase in horses racing in the Kentucky Derby
