Industrial Revolution Quiz Questions
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- 1.Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
- A.
United States
- B.
England
- C.
Africa
- D.
China
- 2.Effects of industrialization included which of the following?
- A.
Increased unemployment
- B.
Rapid urbanization
- C.
Safer working conditions
- D.
Shorter work days
- 3.Eight-hour work days, improved safety measures, and the outlawing of child labor were all accomplishments fought for by?
- A.
Labor unions
- B.
Mutual-aid societies
- C.
Business leaders
- D.
The bourgeois
- 4.Cities grew by the millions due to the?
- A.
Decreased mobility of urban dwellers
- B.
Existence of government housing subsidies
- C.
Promise of available employment
- D.
Existence of a drought throughout the nation's rural area
- 5.Which group of people helped channel worker's anger away from revolution and toward social reform?
- A.
The factory owners
- B.
The Methodists
- C.
The Luddites
- D.
The Utopians
- 6.What were illegal at the start of the Industrial Revolution, but workers still tried to initiate reforms?
- A.
Urbanizations
- B.
Contaminated
- C.
Tenements
- D.
Labor Unions
- 7.Which of the following was NOT a danger of being a miner?
- A.
Explosions and flooding in mines
- B.
Coal dust harming your lungs
- C.
Working in darkness
- D.
Clean working conditions
- 8.One problem for the industrial working class poor was that the drinking water had this problem?
- A.
Contaminated
- B.
Urbanized
- C.
Tenement
- D.
Stressed
- 9.Which group benefited the most from the Industrial Revolution?
- A.
The working class
- B.
Farmers
- C.
The nobility
- D.
The middle class
- 10.Workers often packed into tiny ____________ as they struggled to survive in the slums?
- A.
Contaminations
- B.
Tenements
- C.
Labor unions
- D.
Cottages
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