Top 350+ Solved Modern World History MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which of the following did not occur did not occur with the Industrial Revolution inAmerica?
a. Man replaced handheld tools.
b. Unskilled workers replaced skilled workers
c. Other sources of energy like steam replaed human energy
d. All of the above occure
Q. What were Alexander Graham Bell’s first words on the telephone?
a. Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.
b. What hath God wrought?
c. Mary had a little lamb.
d. This is just the beginning.
Q. What was the first name of Robert Fultons first steam boat?
a. New Orleans ( )
b. Clermont ( )
c. Hudson ( )
d. Livingstone ( )
Q. How many years passed between the invention of the first reliable steam engine and the inductionelectric motor?
a. 50 ( )
b. 81 ( )
c. 113 ( )
d. 152 ( )
Q. One of Eli Whitney’s major Contributions to American manufacturing was his idea for
a. Steam engine ( )
b. textile machinery ( )
c. the factory sysytem ( )
d. interchangable parts ( )
Q. Who sneaked the plans for a spinning machine out of England and built a factory in Rhode Island?
a. Eli Whitney ( )
b. Robert Fulton ( )
c. Samuel Slater ( )
d. Samuel Morse ( )
Q. The invention and the use of machines was actually stimulated by a shortage of
a. Labour ( )
b. capital ( )
c. raw materials ( )
d. trading ships ( )
Q. The Erie Canal connected
a. Buffalo and Rochester ( )
b. Albany and Buffalo ( )
c. Rochester and Albany ( )
d. Buffalo and Pittsburg ( )
Q. Americans owed their ability to travel upstream to an invention by
a. Eli Whitney ( )
b. Robert Fulton ( )
c. Samuel Slater ( )
d. Robert Fulton ( )
Q. The development of steamboats, which made it economically feasible to bring products from theinterior to market,
a. led to a sharp decline in canal building ( )
b. hindered the development of railroads in the South and West ( )
c. Brought the West into the national economy ( )
d. led to a decline in the port cities of the Northeast ( )
Q. Which invention is incorectly paired?
a. Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin ( )
b. Robert Fulton - Steamboat ( )
c. Samuel Morse - Telephone ( )
d. Samuel Colt - Revolver ( )
Q. What was the immediate impact of the Cotton Gin in America?
a. It made cotton more profitable ( )
b. It drove planters out of business ( )
c. It made the land more fertile ( )
d. It made slavery unprofitable ( )
Q. Jane Austin was among those novelists who reflected the middle-class belief in
a. the importance of the home as the setting for a rewarding family life.
b. entrepreneurship.
c. the problem of bureaucracy within the established church.
d. a women's obligation to work outside the home.
Q. Visiting a doctor in the 1850s was a risky affair; often, their remedies for diseases caused more harm than good for the patients. Out of all the following commonly-prescribed early nineteenth-century treatments, which is the only one that was NOT generally harmful to the patient?
a. taking the waters
b. the drug Laudanum
c. bloodletting
d. laxative purges
Q. During the industrial revolution, a new type of family arose among the middle class in Europe.Which of the following is a characteristic of the new middle-class family?
a. a great number of children
b. a stress on social status rather than love in marriage
c. a belief that the home should be a haven
d. a distaste for material possessions