Unit 10 Test: Industrial Revolution Question Preview (ID: 50629)


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What were new immigrants looking for as they moved to Minnesota?
a) Land
b) Opportunity
c) Gold
d) Answer 1 and 2

The railroad was possible because of:
a) An overproduction of steel
b) Henry Oliver
c) An increase in immigrant labor willing to work for cheap
d) Minnesota Farmers

There was an increase in immigrants because of which act?
a) Westward Expansion
b) Homestead Act of 1862
c) US-Dakota War Refugees
d) People just settling places

Which was the first industry to come to Minnesota?
a) Railroads
b) Plague of Grasshoppers
c) Homesteaders
d) Immigrants

How did railroads impact Minnesotans lives?
a) Forced people to leave their homes
b) Made travel faster and helped industries grow
c) Got rid of the Mississippi River
d) It didn't.

More Railroads =
a) More goods
b) less people
c) More people
d) More land

What is industrialization?
a) More farms and agriculture
b) Large factories and more machines
c) Cars
d) Factories were destroyed

What were the three major industries new to MN (besides railroads)?
a) Machines + Natural Resources + People
b) Winds, Fields, and Falls
c) Iron, Flour, and Lumber
d) Technology, Manufacturing, and Mining

Describe the flour milling industry.
a) Railroads (machines), Trees (natural resources), and more workers (labor)
b) Railroads and ships (machines), iron and Lake Superior (natural resources, and more workers (labor)
c) Grew in bright colors in fields and were collected by workers with large baskets
d) Railroads (machines), St. Anthony Falls and Soil (natural resources), and more workers (labor)

Describe the lumber industry.
a) Railroads (machines), Trees (natural resources), and more workers (labor)
b) Railroads and ships (machines), iron and Lake Superior (natural resources, and more workers (labor)
c) Taylors Falls
d) Railroads (machines), St. Anthony Falls and Soil (natural resources), and more workers (labor)

Describe the iron mining industry.
a) Railroads (machines), Trees (natural resources), and more workers (labor)
b) Railroads and ships (machines), iron and Lake Superior (natural resources, and more workers (labor)
c) Iron is good for your body
d) Railroads (machines), St. Anthony Falls and Soil (natural resources), and more workers (labor)

More industries = more (?) for immigrants
a) Food
b) Lumber
c) Economy
d) Jobs

What was the recipe for success for an industry?
a) Machines + Natural Resources + People
b) Winds, Fields, and Falls
c) Iron, Flour, and Lumber
d) Technology, Manufacturing, and Mining

How was the use of natural resources in the lumber industry similar to the flour milling industry?
a) Both used St. Anthony Falls
b) Both used Lake Superior
c) Both required the use of rivers
d) Both required more workers

What elements were the same between the flour industry, lumber industry, and iron ore industry?
a) Rivers
b) More Workers
c) Railroads and the use of more workers
d) Relied on natural resources from different states

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