When Everything Changed: the Industrial Revolution

Which of the following IS NOT a method that humans used to provide energy for production BEFORE the Industrial Revolution?

• Humans provided their own energy by eating plants and animals.

• Humans used domestic livestock.

• Humans used windmills and waterwheels.

• Humans burned fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.

Which sentence gives a reason why the world changed so radically in the 18th century?

• At one time, humans used their own energy.

• Humans discovered fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.

• Fossil fuels form deep underground.

• Eventually, some turn into coal, a dark rock that can be burned.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

• The steam engine was first developed to power locomotives and steam ships.

• The Industrial Revolution led to an uprising of sentient machines.

• The Industrial Revolution caused cities to grow as more people moved there to work in factories.

• When the British first began to burn coal for fuel, they knew it would lead to the Industrial Revolution.

How does a steam engine provide energy?

• Burning coal boils water producing steam which builds up pressure to drive a piston.

• Burning coal boils water, turning a waterwheel.

• Because of the Laws of Thermodynamics.

• Mr. Foran, you dummy. Steam engines do not provide energy.

Who invented the steam engine?

• Thomas Savery

• James Watt

• Thomas Edison

• Albert Einstein

Overall, the article was organized around which of the following?

• A man and his invention that sparked the Industrial Revolution.

• The reasons why Britain became the world's superpower by 1914.

• How and why the Industrial Revolution happened and some results of it.

• The negative consequences of the Industrial Revolution on people and the environment.

The main advancements in the early Industrial Revolution occurred in which industries? Select all that apply.

• Computers

• Military Technology

• Textiles

• Mass Transportation

Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain? Select all that apply.

• A capitalist economic system that promoted competition.

• Limited government regulation of business.

• Britain had the world's largest population in the 18th and 19th centuries.

• Large deposits of fossil fuels like coal and natural gas.

How did the Industrial Revolution spread from Europe to the United States?

• Cultural Diffusion

• An immigrant, Samuel Slater, constructed the nation's first textile mill in Rhode Island.

• Great Britain shared technological information with the U.S. government.

• Industrial Espionage

One of the reasons the North won the Civil War is because they were industrialized and the South was not.

• True

• False