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Here are some fun games for you to play. All of them use some information you have learned about the Industrial Revolution.

Word Jumble

Cartoons

Quiz

 

Word Jumble

This is a fun and popular word game. First, unscramble the four words and phrases below. Then, arrange the selected letters to spell out the name of a famous American inventor. Submit your answers to us, we will randomly choose a winner from the correct answers, and the winner gets their name posted on the winners list of IRWeb games.

TOTCNO NIG- 4th letter and 5th letter of first word, last letter of second word

EATTBSAOM- 6th letter and 7th letter

SAINFCR OBCTA OLLELW- 1st letter and 2nd letter of first word, 3rd and 5th letter of second word, 4th letter of third word

ETIXLTE STYURNID- 6th letter of first word, 4th letter and 7th letter of second word

These letters that we have selected from the words you unscrambled can spell the name of this person:


There are six letters in each, first and last name.

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Quiz

Here is our Indusrtrial Revolution quiz. You will have already have learned all of the answers from the Information Page. If you get all the ten questions right and your name is randomly chosen from the winners, we will post up your name on the IRWeb website.

1. Where did Eli Whitney go to college?

Yale
William & Mary
Harvard
None of the above

2. In what country did the Industrial Revolution start?

Canada
U. S. A.
England
Germany

3. In what year did the Industrial Revolution start?

1733
1812
1759
1791

4. What person invented the reaper?

Charles Goodyear
John Deere
Elias Howe
Cyrus McCormick

5. What was the name of Robert Fulton's steamboat?

The Hudson
The Clermont
The Mallard
The Fulton

6. Which one does not belong?

The reaper
The sewing machine
The telephone
Vulcanized rubber

7. True or false: Eli Whitney's only claim to fame was the cotton gin.

True
False

8. The main reason that child labor was a terrible thing was what?

The machines were very hazardous
The toxic fumes caused cancer and other diseases
The children had no free time and low wages
All of the above

9. What did Francis Cabot Lowell cotton mill design on?

None. He started from scratch.
English cotton mills
Samuel Slater's design
None of the above

10. Which was a bad part of the Industrial Revolution?

The cotton gin encouraged slavery
Factories were a major cause of pollution
It allowed mistreatment of factory workers
All of the above

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Cartoons

These are some cartoons related to the Industrial Revolution. We found them in A History of Us: A New Nation. We hope you like them.

Left: This grim cartoon shows dismembered bodies flying through the air after a steamship/railroad boiler explodes.

Right: This cartoon poked fun at "teakettle power", the name given to the power produced by the steam engine.

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