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