This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 43 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Women were paid ..... than men for doing the same work. A) More. B) Less. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less. 2. What is the name for an economic system in which private businesses run most industries? A) Monopoly. B) Laissez-faire. C) Capitalism. D) Corporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capitalism. 3. When was the Industrial Revolution? A) 1800-1950. B) 1600-1750. C) 1750-1900. D) 1650-1900. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1750-1900. 4. This reformer eliminated secrecy in the Knights of Labor. A) Alexander G. Bell. B) Terence V. Powderly. C) Mary Harris Jones. D) Frederick W. Taylor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terence V. Powderly. 5. By the late 1700s, British factories needed an efficient, inexpensive way to ship ..... A) Raw materials and finished goods. B) Steam engines. C) Tenements. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Raw materials and finished goods. 6. Who is credited with opening the first textile mill in the United States? A) Samuel Slater. B) Thomas Edison. C) Henry Ford. D) Robert Fulton. E) Steve Jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Slater. 7. In his book The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx expressed the idea that A) Religion should be the most important factor in society. B) Power should be determined by a person's wealth. C) Profits from work should belong to the workers. D) Supply and demand should control prices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Profits from work should belong to the workers. 8. What was the last major political upheaval in England before the Industrial Revolution? A) The French Revolution. B) The American Revolution. C) The Glorious Revolution. D) The Russian Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Glorious Revolution. 9. What is the term for a legal right granted for an invention? A) Trademark. B) Patent. C) Copyright. D) License. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Patent. 10. What was Cholera? A) A way of punishing prisoners. B) A deadly disease. C) A machine. D) A way of living. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A deadly disease. 11. Which of the following best describes the working conditions within the factories? A) Factory injuries were often exaggerated and really not that common. B) Factory conditions were clean and safe in order to provide the workers with a comfortable working experience. C) Factory conditions were dangerous and often unhealthy. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Factory conditions were dangerous and often unhealthy. 12. Plessy v. Ferguson set the standard by deciding ..... A) Separate but equal was constitutional. B) Literacy tests and poll taxes were legal. C) The contract system was constitutional. D) That African Americans should move to Northern cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Separate but equal was constitutional. 13. Karl March believed that workers should take control of the economy and government. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. What is powering this invention? (Watt's Steam Engine) A) Wood. B) Iron. C) Coal. D) Gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coal. 15. What is the name of a person who risks money to start a business? A) Fool. B) Teacher. C) Stock holder. D) Entrepreneur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Entrepreneur. 16. A cheap and efficient process for making steel A) Monopoly. B) Stock. C) Bessemer Process. D) Network. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bessemer Process. 17. What happened as a result of workers organizing into unions in the late 1800s and early 1900s? A) Working conditions began to improve for many workers. B) Every worker gained an eight-hour workday and better pay. C) Most workers lost work hours and were paid less in wages. D) Very little happened; things remained the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Working conditions began to improve for many workers. 18. What was different about the Liverpool-Manchester Railroad in 1830? A) It was the first railroad to use steam locomotives. B) It moved people between cities for the first time. C) It was the longest railroad in the world at that time. D) It was the first railroad to be built entirely on a flat surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It moved people between cities for the first time. 19. Which of the following is NOT a negative experience that people faced while working in a factory during the Industrial Revolution? A) Use of dangerous equipment. B) Possible injury/death due to lack of safety procedures and poor structures. C) Poor sanitation which led to more diseases. D) High working wages. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) High working wages. 20. During the Industrial Revolution, who was a major advocate of Socialism and Communism? A) Adam Smith. B) Vladimir Lenin. C) Karl Marx. D) Mao Zedong. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karl Marx. 21. John D. Rockefeller owned 90% of which American industry? A) Automotive. B) Oil. C) Steamships. D) Railroads. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oil. 22. He created the company known as Standard Oil A) Andrew Carnegie. B) Cornelius Vanderbilt. C) John D. Rockefeller. D) Thomas Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John D. Rockefeller. 23. Match the description with the correct inventor:In 1846, he used a substance called ether to keep patients from feeling pain during surgery. A) William Morton. B) Samuel Slater. C) Francis Cabot Lowell. D) Samuel F.B. Morse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Morton. 24. Which of the following was not a new form of mass marketing seen during the Industrial Revolution? A) Mail order catalogs. B) Department stores. C) Coupons in newspapers. D) Introduction of clever brand names. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coupons in newspapers. 25. What part of the United States was the location of most factories? A) Midwest. B) The South. C) New England. D) The North. 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