CPWC Chapter 7 & 9 Test Quiz

rebuilding poor areas of a city

a measure of the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society

What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible?

The first factories developed in what industry?

“The greatest happiness for the greatest number” was a goal of

A company that sells ownership shares to many investors is a

Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it

During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?

established a link between microbes and disease

reform movement concerned with voting rights 

The technology for America’s first textile factory came from

According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was

Russia did not industrialize as soon as other countries because it lacked

A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process is called

a business organization in areas such as shipping, mining, or factories

The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because

The popular saying “A man’s home is his castle” reflected what middle-class value of the late 1800s?

Today’s electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by

shares of ownership in a corporation

The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the

The putting-out system was a method of

Reformers in what movement argued that the use of alcoholic beverages harmed the family and reduced worker productivity?

a drug that prevents pain during surgery, patented by a dentist

those who manage and assume the financial risk of new businesses

The slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in Britain by

the movement of people to cities

Laws called “factory acts” were passed in the early 1800s to

Most early factory workers were women because

Japan lacked many basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because

The development of steam power enabled the growth of

Abraham Darby made better quality iron by

Which of the following was a long-term result of the Industrial Revolution?

an apartment building for the working class