Industrial Revolution in the US

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Write a few lines about: Women workers between 1900 and 1930

Q. Who is the father of the American Industrial Revolution?

1. Richard Arkwright
2. Abraham Darby
3. Thomas Alva Edison
4. Samuel Slater

Q. Who established the steamboat service on the Hudson River?

1. Robert Fulton
2. Samuel Morse
3. Elias Howe
4. Thomas Edison

Q. Who invented the telegraph?

1. Samuel Morse
2. Samuel Crompton
3. James Watt
4. John Kay

Q. What was the reason for the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

1. Wage cut in railroad industry
2. Bad working conditions
3. No employment to women in railroad
4. Unfair laws against the workers

Q. The Haymarket massacre took place in ____ in the year____.

1. Chicago, 1868
2. Chicago, 1886
3. Boston, 1886
4. Boston, 1898

Q. Which century is considered as the age of innovation and inventions in the USA?

1. 18th century
2. 19th century
3. 17th century
4. 16th century

Q. Which invention by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 completely changed the world of communication?

1. The telegraph
2. The television
3. The telephone
4. The teleprompter

Q. Andrew Jackson is hailed as the 'Father of the American Industrial Revolution'.

1. True
2. False

Q. When is the International Workers' Day celebrated?

1. April 1
2. June 1
3. May 1
4. July 1

Q. Clermont, a steamboat invented by Robert Fulton, sailed from New York to .

1. Albany
2. Buffalo
3. Ithaca
4. Yonkers

Q. When was the first transcontinental railroad completed?

1. 1865
2. 1869
3. 1896
4. 1856

Q. Match the following options with the appropriate answers.

A. Standard Oil Trust	1. Elias Howe
B. Illegal entry into the USA	2. Andrew Carnegie
C. First steel mill in the USA	3. Samuel Slater
D. Sewing machine	4. John D. Rockefeller

1. A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
2. A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
3. A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
4. A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2

Q. Which of the following statements regarding the 'Great Railroad Strike' is/are right?

A - It was a major strike that took place in the USA in 1875.
B - It began in West Virginia and spread to three other states.

1. A only
2. B only
3. Both A & B
4. Neither A nor B

Q. Who established the first steel mills in the USA for mass production?

1. Samuel Slater
2. John Kay
3. John Rockefeller
4. Andrew Carnegie

Q. Which of these represented workers and fought for their rights and better living conditions during the Industrial Revolution in the US?

1. Cooperations
2. Non-governmental organisations
3. Labour unions
4. Political parties

Q. 'X' was an apprentice to Jedediah Strutt, a partner of Richard Arkwright, in England where he gained a thorough knowledge of cotton manufacturing. He immigrated to the United States in 1789, attracted by the bounties offered there for workers skilled in the manufacturing of cotton. With his detailed knowledge of textile machinery, financial backing from the Rhode Island firm of Almy and Brown, and the assistance of skilled artisans, he constructed versions of Arkwright’s spinning and carding machinery and established the first successful cotton mill in the United States. Identify 'X'.

1. Andrew Jackson
2. Moses Brown
3. Samuel Slater
4. Samuel F. B. Morse

Q. In which year was the First Transcontinental Railroad, originally known as the 'Pacific Railroad', completed in the US?

1. 1863
2. 1865
3. 1867
4. 1869

Q.

Give the opposite of the following statement:

Going North.