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World History Industrial Revolution
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A review of the Industrial Revolution.
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1
Which group established communities where all work is shared & all property is owned in common?
Capitalists
Utopians
Republicans
Utilitarians
2
The putting-out system was a method of
separating seeds from cotton
removing iron from its ore
producing cloth in individual homes
spinning thread with water power
3
Land enclosure in the 1600s and 1700s resulted in
larger farms
more peasant farmers
more fenced farms
more farms
4
In what way were railroads an improvement over canals?
Railroads were the only form of overland transportation
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
5
What 1800s Middle-Class value is reflected by, "A man's home is his castle"
cult of domesticity
women's sufferage
romanticism
temperance
6
Which socialist setup a utopian community in New Lanark
James Watt
Robert Owen
Alfred Nobel
Jeremy Bentham
7
Reformers in what movement argued that the use of alcoholic beverages harmed family life
temperance
abolition
suffrage
social gospel
8
Who advocated for utilitarianism?
Jeremy Bentham
Alfred Nobel
Robert Own
James Watt
9
Today's electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by?
Michael Faraday
Benjamin Franklin
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Edison
10
Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that
each element has its own atoms
all atoms are basically alike
atoms exist within the periodic table
elements can be grouped according to their atomic weights
11
Which of the following were writers of the realism movement?
William Wordsworth & Percy Shelley
Edgar Degas & Georges Seurat
Gustave Courbet & Thomas Eakins
Charles Dickens & Victor Hugo
12
"The greatest happiness for the greatest number" was a goal of
utilitarianism
communism
capitalism
socialism
13
Steam became an efficient power source because of improvements made by?
Thomas Newcomen
John Stuart Mill
Eli Whitney
James Watt
14
The development of steam power enabled the growth of?
canals
railroads
cottage industry
the putting-out system
15
The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of which class?
working class
upper class
middle class
bourgeoisie
16
A person who manages and assumes the financial risk of a new business
entrepreneur
tenement
enterprise
proletiat
17
A company that sells ownership shares to many investors is a
corporation
trust
monopoly
cartel
18
What style of art would portray an accurate representation of the harsh life of slum dwellers?
impressionism
neoclassicism
realism
romanticism
19
What was the Bessemer process a method for producing?
textiles
identical components
electricity
steel
20
In what industry did the first factories develop?
iron manufacturing
agriculture
coal mining
textiles
21
Which of the following was a long term result of the Industrial Revolution?
a general rise in the standard of living
the overall poverty of the working class
an overall decline in population
a general decline in the standard of living
22
Most early factory workers were women because
more women than men sought employment
women were more willing than men to work long hours
employers could pay women less than men
women were less likely than men to have accidents
23
18th Century Composer, famous for Symphony #5
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Pachelbel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
24
German socialists formed a "social democracy" in the the 1860s in order to transition gradually
from communism to capitalism
from socialism to capitalism
from capitalism to socialism
from socialism to communism
25
Abraham Darby made better quality iron by
using wood to smelt the iron
using oil to smelt the iron
using steam to smelt the iron
using coal to smelt iron
26
The cotton gin was a machine that could
spin thread
weave thread into cloth
separate seeds from raw cotton
remove insects from raw cotton
27
Laws called "factory acts" were passed in the early 1800s to
reform child labor
allow workers to organize into unions
provide free education for working children
provide the right to vote for working-class men
28
Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the Enlightenment's emphasis on
reason
religion
legends & folklore
the past
29
According to socialists, the solution to poverty & injustice was
individual ownership of the means of production
the charity and good works of the religious community
shared ownership by the people of the means of production
armed revolution to overthrow the proletariet
30
Postimpressionist painter, best known for this image
Louis Pasteur
Claude Monet
Gustave Courbet
Vincent van Gogh
31
What limited the effectiveness of women involved in the temperance movement?
They could not vote and were barred from most schools
they cared too much about the suffrage movement
They were too busy with their family life to vote
They did not want to be involved in political issues
32
Which chemist developed a table that became the basis for the periodic table of elements
Dmitri Mendeleyev
Thomas Edison
John Dalton
Charles Lyell
33
What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible?
Faraday's electric motor
the Wright Brother's flying machine
the telegraph
the steamboat
34
According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was
an unrestricted free market
laws requiring factories to increase wages
welfare
popular reform movements
35
What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business & society?
Social Gospel
Capitalism
Socialism
Social Darwinism
