G.S. 3

Question 1

Who was the first European nation to industrialize after Britain?

Answer 1

Belgium

Question 2

By 1900, what country overtook Britain as the world’s leading industrial nation, producing roughly 30% of the world’s industrial goods?

Answer 2

United States

Question 3

What state was the first American textile factory built?

Answer 3

Rhode Island

Question 4

Who was the Swedish chemist who invented dynamite, which he used his fortune from to fund famous awards that are still given today?

Answer 4

Alfred Nobel

Question 5

By the late 1800s, what replaced steam as the primary power source of industrial power

Answer 5

electricity

Question 6

A manufacturing process in which parts are added in a sequence along a line from workstation to workstation

Answer 6

assembly line

Question 7

In the late 1800s which American automaker began making model cars that could reach breathtaking speeds of 25 mph?

Answer 7

Henry Ford

Question 8

What set of brothers designed and flew the first airplane in North Carolina in 1903?

Answer 8

Wright Brothers

Question 9

Who invented the telephone?

Answer 9

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 10

Which British woman is considered the founder of modern nursing and was quoted as saying “a hospital should do the sick no harm”

Answer 10

Florence Nightingale

Question 11

Rebuilding of poor areas of a city is called

Answer 11

urban renewal

Question 12

Eventually as time went on, the worldwide standard of living improved and the standard work day was set at how many hours?

Answer 12

8

Question 13

A campaign started by women to ban or limit the use of alcoholic beverages was called the (———) movement

Answer 13

temperance

Question 14

The first women’s rights convention that took place in 1848 where women demanded the right to vote was called the

Answer 14

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 15

Which amendment granted women suffrage in 1920?

Answer 15

19th

Question 16

To explain the slow process of evolution, Charles Darwin put forth his theory stating that only the strong survive. This theory was called

Answer 16

Natural selection

Question 17

A style of art and literature that emphasizes imagination, freedom, and emotion

Answer 17

romanticism

Question 18

An artistic style that attempts to portray the world exactly as it is

Answer 18

realism

Question 19

What type of composer was Beethoven?

Answer 19

a romanticism composer

Question 20

Why did photography pose a challenge to realist artists?

Answer 20

already depicts the world as it is

Question 21

Who invented the periodic table?

Answer 21

Mendeleev

Question 22

Who invented the Cotton gin?

Answer 22

Eli Whitney

Question 23

Where did the Industrial revolution begin?

Answer 23

Britain

Question 24

What two resources were the most important during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 24

coal and iron

Question 25

Rapid movement of people from rural areas to cities

Answer 25

urbanization

Question 26

Multistory building divided into crowded apartments

Answer 26

tenement

Question 27

Political and economic philosophy that wealth, distribution, and means of production should be owned by society as a whole

Answer 27

Socialism

Question 28

when you’re at rock bottom where’s the only place to go

Answer 28

up bro