Do You Really Know About The Industrial Revolution? Quiz
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition period in Europe and the US, from 1760 to between 1820 and 1840. This transition transformed the hand-production techniques to machines, new chemical plants and the advent of the factory system. This quiz has been made to test your knowledge regarding the history of the Industrial Revolution. So, let's try out the quiz. All the best!
- 1.What does Industrial Revolution mean?
- A.
People working with their hands
- B.
People working with machines
- C.
A change in the way people worked
- D.
People did not work
- 2.What food did people eat that made them stronger, healthier and able to live longer in England between 1750-1800?
- A.
Potato
- B.
Carrot
- C.
Sushi
- D.
Meat
- 3.What is capital?
- A.
How you make letters bigger
- B.
Money
- C.
Money used to make more money
- D.
When someone is poor
- 4.Who invented the cotton gin?
- A.
John Kay
- B.
George Stephenson
- C.
Samuel Morse
- D.
Eli Whitney
- 5.Goods that come into a country to be sold is called what?
- A.
Import
- B.
Export
- C.
Mass Production
- 6.During Mass Production, are all the parts of an item exactly the same and put together in exactly the same way?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- 7.What helped factory owners move heavy things from factory to factory in an easy way?
- A.
Canals
- B.
Locomotives
- C.
Both a and b
- D.
Neither a nor b
- 8.Who is the founder of the railroads?
- A.
Alexander Graham Bell
- B.
George Stephenson
- C.
Thomas Edison
- D.
The Wright Brothers
- 9.What country was called the "workshop of the world"?
- A.
United States
- B.
Russia
- C.
France
- D.
Great Britain (England)
- 10.How did Francis Lowell help the people in the town named after him when he built a factory?
- A.
He hired young women to work
- B.
He taught them how to used the machines
- C.
He set up a school to teach them how to read and write
- D.
He gave them a clean place to live
- E.
All of the above
- 11.Who invented the telegraph?
- A.
Thomas Edison
- B.
Alexander Graham Bell
- C.
Samuel F. B. Morse
- D.
The Wright Brothers
- 12.Who were the first to successfully fly an airplane?
- A.
Thomas Edison
- B.
Alexander Graham Bell
- C.
Samuel F. B. Morse
- D.
The Wright Brothers
- 13.Who invented the telephone?
- A.
Thomas Edison
- B.
Alexander Graham Bell
- C.
Samuel F. B. Morse
- D.
The Wright Brothers
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