Test your basic knowledge |

Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product






2. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels






3. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?






4. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods






5. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.






6. Wrote about cruelties of war






7. First Usable - practical light bulb.






8. What did jethro tull invent?






9. A system in which the government controls the economy.






10. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country






11. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.






12. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?






13. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned






14. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class






15. Identical Machine-made parts.






16. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?






17. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.






18. Someone who starts a business.






19. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






20. Defended the idea of a free economy.






21. The idea that government should not interfere in business.






22. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






23. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts






24. Theory of relativity






25. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.






26. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land






27. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?






28. Organizations representing workers' interests.






29. Theory of evolution






30. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.






31. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame






32. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently






33. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases






34. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.






35. Luddites were also known as the...






36. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.






37. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on






38. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






39. Poet who wrote about nature






40. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






41. James hargreaves invented what?






42. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?






43. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services






44. What did Eli Whitney invent?






45. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.






46. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.






47. Invented the telephone






48. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






49. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.






50. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism