Grade 9 · World history
This quiz helps revise “The Industrial Revolution” in World history for grade 9. It has 25 questions in five categories: Origins, Machines & Inventors, Transport & Steam, People & Cities, Laws & Reform. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which country was the first to undergo the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century?
Which plant fiber became central to the leading mechanized industry of the early Industrial Revolution?
Which fuel became the…
In the gameWhich economic system rests…
In the gameWhich fuel replaced…
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The portrait shows which engineer who greatly improved steam-engine efficiency with a separate condenser?
Who invented the spinning jenny, allowing several spindles to be worked at once?
Who patented the…
In the gameWho invented the power…
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In the gameWhat were nineteenth-century vessels that used engines instead of relying only on sails called?
Which artificial waterways made heavy bulk goods cheaper to move before railways spread widely?
Which engineer served as…
In the gameWhich locomotive hauled the…
In the gameWhich competition did the…
In the gameWhat is the process of rapid city growth as people move from rural areas to towns?
What term described wage workers who lived by selling their labor?
What system had families…
In the gameWhat term described the…
In the gameWhat were the 1811–1816…
In the gameBelow what age did the 1833 Factory Act bar children from textile factory work?
Who was appointed to enforce the 1833 Factory Act?
Below what age were…
In the gameTo how many hours…
In the gameWhich 1871 law formally…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.