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First Industrial Revolution Quiz

How much have you learned about the First 4. Which of the following statements
Industrial Revolution? Take this quiz to find out. is not true about the domestic
Select the best answer for each question. system of production (a.k.a. the
putting-out system)?
a. Businesspeople delivered raw
1. The _____ was a fundamental change
materials to workers’ homes
in the way goods were produced,
b. Businesspeople picked up
from human labor to machines.
finished goods and paid
a. assembly line
workers based on the number
b. Commercial Revolution
of items made
c. Industrial Revolution
c. Workers manufactured goods
d. steam engine
in their own homes using
their own tools
2. Which of the following statements
d. Workers manufactured
is not true about the Industrial
products in large urban
Revolution?
factories
a. Decline in factory-based
manufacturing
5. What country is recognized as the
b. Increased use of metals and
birthplace of the Industrial
minerals
Revolution?
c. Machines were invented
a. France
which replaced human labor
b. Germany
d. New energy sources were
c. Great Britain
developed to power the new
d. United States
machinery

6. England’s vast _____ reserves

3. What term describes people leaving
powered steam engines.
farms to live and work in cities?
a. coal
a. emigration
b. oil
b. immigration
c. timber
c. rural-to-urban migration
d. uranium
d. suburbanization

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7. _____ was the basic building block of 12. Who invented the spinning jenny
large machines, railroad tracks, in 1765, a home-based machine
trains, and ships. that spun thread 8 times faster than
a. Copper when spun by hand?
b. Gold a. James Hargreaves
c. Iron b. John Kay
d. Tin c. Richard Arkwright
d. Samuel Crompton
8. England’s _____ caused many small
farmers to lose their lands, and 13. Who invented the water frame in
these former farmers increased the 1769, a water-powered spinning
available labor supply. machine, too large for use in a
a. Bill of Rights home, that led to the creation of
b. Corn Laws factories?
c. Enclosure Acts a. Edward Cartwright
d. Magna Carta b. Eli Whitney
c. Elias Howe
9. _____ are cloths or fabrics. d. Richard Arkwright
a. Cotton gins
b. Factories 14. Who invented the spinning mule
c. Power looms in 1779, which combined the
d. Textiles spinning jenny and the water frame
into a single device, increasing the
10. Who invented the flying shuttle production of fine thread?
in 1733, a hand-operated machine a. James Hargreaves
which increased the speed of b. John Kay
weaving? c. Richard Arkwright
a. Edward Cartwright d. Samuel Crompton
b. Eli Whitney
c. Elias Howe 15. Who discovered, in 1709, that
d. John Kay heating coal turned it into more
efficient coke?
11. In the factory system, production a. Abraham Darby
anticipates demand. b. Henry Cort
a. True c. John Smeaton
b. False d. Thomas Newcomen

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16. Who invented the cotton gin in 20. Who, in 1760, smelted iron by
1793, a device that separated raw using water-powered air pumps to
cotton from cotton seeds, create steam blasts?
increasing the cotton supply while a. Henry Cort
lowering the cost of raw cotton? b. John Kay
a. Benjamin Franklin c. John Smeaton
b. Eli Whitney d. Samuel Crompton
c. Elias Howe
d. Samuel Crompton 21. Who invented the locomotive
(train) in 1825?
17. Who invented the sewing a. George Stephenson
machine in 1846, greatly increasing b. Robert Fulton
the speed of sewing? c. Rudolf Diesel
a. Alexander Graham Bell d. Thomas Telford
b. Eli Whitney
c. Elias Howe 22. Scotland’s _____ improved
d. Thomas Edison Newcomen’s steam engine to power
machinery in 1769.
18. England’s _____ created a steam a. Adam Smith
engine to pump waters from mines b. James Watt
in 1704. c. Richard Arkwright
a. James Hargreaves d. Samuel Crompton
b. James Watt
c. Robert Boyle 23. Which of the following was not a
d. Thomas Newcomen major factory city in the 19th
century?
19. Invented by Thomas Telford and a. Bath
John McAdam, _____ roads have a b. Liverpool
smooth, hard surface that supports c. Manchester
heavy loads without requiring a
thick roadbed. 24. Who laid the trans-Atlantic cable
a. dirt in 1866?
b. gravel a. Alexander Graham Bell
c. macadamized b. Cyrus W. Field
d. Roman c. Samuel F.B. Morse
d. Vladimir Zworykin

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25. In 1819, the _____ used a steam 30. In 1838, the _____ was the first
engine as auxiliary power for the ship to sail across the Atlantic on
first time when it sailed across the steam power alone, completing the
Atlantic Ocean. trip in 15 days.
a. Clermont a. Clermont
b. Great Western b. Great Western
c. Savannah c. Rocket
d. Titanic d. Savannah

26. In 1836, _____ invented a screw 31. Between 1770 and 1800, _____
propeller to replace paddle wheels. produced as much coal and iron as
a. Henry Cort every other country combined.
b. John Ericsson a. China
c. John Smeaton b. Germany
d. Robert Fulton c. Great Britain
d. the United States
27. Who, in 1839, first vulcanized
rubber? 32. Who invented the steamboat in
a. Charles Goodyear 1807, which sped water
b. Gottlieb Daimler transportation?
c. Henry Ford a. Eli Whitney
d. Rudolf Diesel b. George Stephenson
c. John McAdam
28. Beginning in 1869, _____’s air d. Robert Fulton
brake made train travel safer.
a. Edison 33. The _____ operated the first
b. Morse regular steamboat route, running
c. Pullman between Albany and New York City.
d. Westinghouse a. Clermont
b. Mayflower
29. What American invented the c. Savannah
telegraph in 1844? d. Great Western
a. Alexander Graham Bell
b. Cyrus W. Field
c. Lee de Forest
d. Samuel F.B. Morse

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