7th Grade World Studies Chapter 13 - Industrial and Social Revolution (PBA)

Question 1

Who supported the abolition of slavery in America?

Accepted Answer

Jonathan Edwards the Younger

Question 2

Many British farmers moved to ______ during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Accepted Answer

the cities

Question 3

Who developed a seed drill for placing seeds in even rows?

Accepted Answer

Tull

Question 4

Who used patents to control the sales of inventions?

Accepted Answer

Arkwright

Question 5

Which was the first known religious group to fight against the slave trade?

Accepted Answer

Quakers

Question 6

Who developed a self-propelled steam engine and tractor?

Accepted Answer

Fowler

Question 7

Who improved the steam engine?

Accepted Answer

Watt

Question 8

What do we call someone who develops business and makes a profit at the risk of personal loss?

Accepted Answer

Entrepreneur

Question 9

Who developed a threshing machine?

Accepted Answer

Meikle

Question 10

What machine was used for processing cotton into thread?

Accepted Answer

Spinning Jenny

Question 11

The majority of slaves were owned by what percentage of southern land owners?

Accepted Answer

1%

Question 12

Workers' unions were developed during the...

Accepted Answer

Industrial Revolution

Question 13

The legislation that limited the number of hours women and children could work in British industry.

Accepted Answer

Ten Hour Bill

Question 14

John Newton wrote the words to which famous hymn?

Accepted Answer

Amazing Grace

Question 15

The New York Manumission Society supported what?

Accepted Answer

abolition of slavery

Question 16

Which American abolitionist was once a slave in Maryland?

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass

Question 17

What machine was used for harvesting wheat?

Accepted Answer

Reaping Machine

Question 18

The Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in 1787 in what country?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 19

Who invented the cotton gin?

Accepted Answer

Whitney

Question 20

What French colony experienced a slave rebellion and won independence from Napoleon?

Accepted Answer

Haiti

Question 21

Who invented the flying shuttle?

Accepted Answer

Kay

Question 22

What helped bring about positive changes to British society?

Accepted Answer

Spiritual Conversion

Question 23

The name of the era characterized by manufacturing changes during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Accepted Answer

Industrial Revolution

Question 24

What affect did the cotton gin have on efforts to abolish slavery?

Accepted Answer

It discouraged the abolition of slavery.

Question 25

Who led the British parliament to end the British slave trade?

Accepted Answer

Wilberforce

Question 26

The African slave trade became a major industry during the Age of...

Accepted Answer

Exploration

Question 27

Which of the following things helped England avoid a violent revolution?

Accepted Answer

Spiritual conversion of many British people

Question 28

Spiritual movement in the American colonies from 1720-1760.

Accepted Answer

Great Awakening

Question 29

Who invented the spinning jenny?

Accepted Answer

Hargreaves

Question 30

The Society of Friend is another name for the...

Accepted Answer

Quakers

Question 31

Is slavery going on in some Islamic countries today?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 32

Who invented the reaping machine?

Accepted Answer

McCormick

Question 33

This man preached the gospel in England, Wales, and the American colonies.

Accepted Answer

George Whitefield

Question 34

Traveled around Britain on horseback to preach.

Accepted Answer

John Wesley

Question 35

Which nation was dominant in Europe after Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 36

Which American edited an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator"?

Accepted Answer

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 37

What do we call the practice of weaving cloth at home rather than in a factory?

Accepted Answer

cottage industry

Question 38

What European country was the first to experience the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 39

The 1833 Factory Act placed limits on...

Accepted Answer

child labor

Question 40

The Industrial Revolution had what kind of an impact on the middle class?

Accepted Answer

It caused a larger middle class

Question 41

What centrally located buildings became necessary for housing larger weaving machines?

Accepted Answer

factories

Question 42

American who published the first known work about freeing slaves.

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

Question 43

Who was involved in the slave trade as a slave-ship captain before he was saved?

Accepted Answer

John Newton

Question 44

John Wesley was part of which religious group?

Accepted Answer

Methodists

Question 45

Did the Great Awakening occur before or after the American War for Independence?

Accepted Answer

Before

Question 46

The practice of growing different crops in the same field from year to year is called...

Accepted Answer

crop rotation

7th Grade World Studies Chapter 13 - Industrial and Social Revolution (PBA)

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7th Grade World Studies Chapter 13 - Industrial and Social Revolution (PBA)

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