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World History Industrial Revolution
World History Industrial Revolution
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A review of the Industrial Revolution.
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1
Laws called "factory acts" were passed in the early 1800s to
provide free education for working children
reform child labor
provide the right to vote for working-class men
allow workers to organize into unions
2
Which chemist developed a table that became the basis for the periodic table of elements
Charles Lyell
Dmitri Mendeleyev
Thomas Edison
John Dalton
3
According to socialists, the solution to poverty & injustice was
the charity and good works of the religious community
armed revolution to overthrow the proletariet
individual ownership of the means of production
shared ownership by the people of the means of production
4
Which group established communities where all work is shared & all property is owned in common?
Capitalists
Utilitarians
Utopians
Republicans
5
German socialists formed a "social democracy" in the the 1860s in order to transition gradually
from communism to capitalism
from socialism to communism
from socialism to capitalism
from capitalism to socialism
6
Most early factory workers were women because
women were more willing than men to work long hours
more women than men sought employment
employers could pay women less than men
women were less likely than men to have accidents
7
Which socialist setup a utopian community in New Lanark
Alfred Nobel
James Watt
Jeremy Bentham
Robert Owen
8
The development of steam power enabled the growth of?
the putting-out system
cottage industry
canals
railroads
9
In what way were railroads an improvement over canals?
Railroads could connect two rivers
Railroads could connect an inland town to a coastal port
Railroads did not have to follow the course of a river
Railroads were the only form of overland transportation
10
Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the Enlightenment's emphasis on
the past
legends & folklore
religion
reason
11
Which of the following were writers of the realism movement?
Gustave Courbet & Thomas Eakins
Edgar Degas & Georges Seurat
William Wordsworth & Percy Shelley
Charles Dickens & Victor Hugo
12
18th Century Composer, famous for Symphony #5
Johann Pachelbel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
13
What was the Bessemer process a method for producing?
identical components
steel
electricity
textiles
14
What style of art would portray an accurate representation of the harsh life of slum dwellers?
romanticism
impressionism
neoclassicism
realism
15
Postimpressionist painter, best known for this image
Vincent van Gogh
Claude Monet
Gustave Courbet
Louis Pasteur
16
According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was
an unrestricted free market
welfare
popular reform movements
laws requiring factories to increase wages
17
What limited the effectiveness of women involved in the temperance movement?
They were too busy with their family life to vote
they cared too much about the suffrage movement
They did not want to be involved in political issues
They could not vote and were barred from most schools
18
Steam became an efficient power source because of improvements made by?
Eli Whitney
James Watt
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Newcomen
19
The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of which class?
bourgeoisie
middle class
working class
upper class
20
Who advocated for utilitarianism?
Alfred Nobel
Jeremy Bentham
Robert Own
James Watt
21
Land enclosure in the 1600s and 1700s resulted in
more farms
larger farms
more fenced farms
more peasant farmers
22
A person who manages and assumes the financial risk of a new business
tenement
entrepreneur
enterprise
proletiat
23
A company that sells ownership shares to many investors is a
corporation
monopoly
cartel
trust
24
What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible?
the Wright Brother's flying machine
Faraday's electric motor
the telegraph
the steamboat
25
What 1800s Middle-Class value is reflected by, "A man's home is his castle"
temperance
cult of domesticity
women's sufferage
romanticism
26
The cotton gin was a machine that could
remove insects from raw cotton
spin thread
weave thread into cloth
separate seeds from raw cotton
27
"The greatest happiness for the greatest number" was a goal of
socialism
communism
capitalism
utilitarianism
28
Reformers in what movement argued that the use of alcoholic beverages harmed family life
social gospel
abolition
temperance
suffrage
29
In what industry did the first factories develop?
coal mining
textiles
agriculture
iron manufacturing
30
What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business & society?
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
Capitalism
Socialism
31
Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that
all atoms are basically alike
each element has its own atoms
atoms exist within the periodic table
elements can be grouped according to their atomic weights
32
Which of the following was a long term result of the Industrial Revolution?
an overall decline in population
a general decline in the standard of living
a general rise in the standard of living
the overall poverty of the working class
