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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 . finished goods and paid a. 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 trains, and ships. that spun thread 8 times faster than a. Copper when spun by hand? b. Gold a. James Hargreaves c. 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 ? 11. In the , 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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