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