WH Topic 13: The Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What is the movement of people from rural areas to cities?

Accepted Answer

urbanization

Question 2

The work of Joseph Lister with antiseptic would have been impossible without the discoveries of

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur.

Question 3

Which of the following was one factor that allowed Britain to industrialize first?

Accepted Answer

British colonies

Question 4

Which was a negative result of the growth of the textile industry in Great Britain?

Accepted Answer

the spread of slavery in the United States

Question 5

Leaders of the temperance movement argued that a ban on alcohol would lead to

Accepted Answer

a decrease in domestic violence.

Question 6

Which statement best reflects the values of the social gospel movement?

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"Feed the hungry and comfort the sick."

Question 7

Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first people to successfully fly.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Alexander Graham Bell invented a device to transmit the human voice electronically.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

The invention of the internal combustion engine was an essential step that eventually led to

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steam-powered ocean travel.

Question 10

Karl Marx argued that capitalism would inevitably lead to

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poverty and a workers' revolution

Question 11

In which of the following pairs was the second development dependent on the first development?

Accepted Answer

invention of dynamo/sending of first telegraph message

Question 12

In addition to personal communication the telegraph was used to

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conduct business and transmit news from far way places

Question 13

What is a 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason?

Accepted Answer

romanticism

Question 14

What is a group of companies that join together to control the production & price of a product?

Accepted Answer

cartel

Question 15

The development of atomic theory by scientists such as Dalton and Mendeleyev led to

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new developments in chemistry.

Question 16

The practice of enclosure helped increase farm outputs by

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increasing the land available for agriculture.

Question 17

How did the enclosure movement contribute to the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

It increased the urban workforce.

Question 18

Which of the following individuals developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 19

How did the radio differ from the telegraph?

Accepted Answer

The telegraph required wires; the radio did not

Question 20

What is a business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk their investment?

Accepted Answer

corporation

Question 21

What is the ability to move in social class?

Accepted Answer

social mobility

Question 22

Which of the following was one effect of the factory system?

Accepted Answer

More people joined the middle class.

Question 23

The mercantile system in Britain was replaced by

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laissez-faire economies

Question 24

Charles Darwin’s book, Onthe Origin of Species, was controversial because it

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differed from the creation story in the Bible.

Question 25

How did the Model T differ from earlier automobile models?

Accepted Answer

It was affordable.

Question 26

What is to melt in order to get the pure metal away from its waste matter?

Accepted Answer

smelt

Question 27

What is the process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers?

Accepted Answer

enclosure

Question 28

What is a 19th century artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is?

Accepted Answer

realism

Question 29

Gottlieb Daimler put an internal combustion engine on a horse carriage&developed the carburetor

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

What is a system in which people as a whole rather than private individuals own all property?

Accepted Answer

socialism

Question 31

Early factory workers usually worked only 8 hour days and 5 days a week.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 32

Mass production, which created an increase in the quantity of goods produced, led to

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more consumer goods available to more people

Question 33

What enabled the United States to industrialize rapidly?

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a wealth of natural resources and a large labor force

Question 34

One effect of the expansion of the railroads was that

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consumers had a greater choice of low-cost products.

Question 35

Due to industrialization, Great Britain, France,& Germany became leaders in the global economy.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 36

What is a production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks?

Accepted Answer

assembly line

WH Topic 13: The Industrial Revolution

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WH Topic 13: The Industrial Revolution

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