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8th Grade LASS (8-1 and 8-3)

Monday, April 23, 2012

6th Grade: Immigration and Industrial Revolution Quiz Review Questions

Hey 6th graders:

If you know the answers to these questions, you'll be doing pretty well on your quiz tomorrow!

Don't forget to bring your one page (front-side only) of notes to use during the quiz!

1.     Why did the Industrial Revolution start in England? (textile industry was based there, needed machines to help them with that work)
2.     Name and describe one Industrial Revolution machine
3.     What was cottage industry? (People completed project by hand, in their own home, ie spinning, weaving, etc)
4.     How did people’s opinions about the Industrial Revolution’s machines change over time?
5.     Name one way immigrants affected the United States?
6.     What was one positive about the factory work in the Industrial Revolution?
7.     How did the movie An American Tail connect to the Industrial Revolution?
8.     What was one negative about factory work in the Industrial Revolution?
9.     Name and describe one job that children could have had during the Industrial Revolution. (chimney sweep, tosher, factory, stealing, corpse collector, mine work)
10.  Name one positive thing that came from the Industrial Revolution
11.  Name one negative thing that came from the Industrial Revolution
12.  What was a Luddite? (Follower of Ned Ludd who didn’t like the Industrial Revolution)
13.  What was a reformer and what did they do? (person who wanted to make life better during the Industrial Revolution, cleaned up hospitals and cities, educated the poor, etc)
14.  What were some reasons people immigrated to the United States?
15.  Name one reason US Citizens didn’t like immigrants?
16.  How did the Dear America movie connect to the movie An American Tail?
17.  Name one similarity between the people who immigrated to Latin America and to the United States. (generally European, etc)
18.  Name one difference between the people who immigrated to Latin America and to the United States. (poor vs rich, level of education, etc)
19.  Name one way immigrants affected the United States?
20.  Name one reason US Citizens didn’t like immigrants?
21.  Name one country from which immigrants came to the United States
22.  Name one job people could get when they immigrated to the United States (factory, railroad, strike breaker, etc)
23.  Why were labor unions considered bad by factory owners? (people who joined them could ask for higher wages, less hours of work, more breaks, etc)
24.  Why did immigrants from the same country generally live in the same area of town? (they tended to join family or gravitate toward people who spoke their language)
25.   What were options for immigrants who did not succeed when they arrived in the US? (go west)
26.  Name one reason US Citizens didn’t like immigrants?
27.  How did the movie An American Tail connect to the Dear America movie?
28.  How did the Dear America movie connect to the Industrial Revolution?
29.  Name one way immigrants affected the United States?
30.  How do immigration and the industrial revolution connect?


KF

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