Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

The recommended daily diet for an adult in the United States contains approximately 200-2600 calories.In many areas of Europe in the early nineteenth century,an entire peasant family might have a daily caloric intake of about:

The emergence of a new social hierarchy in the nineteenth century associated with growing middle-class influence was described by all of the following novelists EXCEPT:

The first modern railway connected Stockton to Manchester to transport coal from the mines.

For most of the nineteenth century,all of the following were used by middle-class families to protect or advance their financial standing EXCEPT:

The development of the steam engine decisively transformed the nineteenth-century world.All of the following numbered among its applications EXCEPT:

Great Britain's small size in the early stages of industrialization:

Great Britain began to lose its lead in the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century due to new industries being developed by other countries,such as:

The nineteenth-century banking revolution was accompanied by scandal; the greatest of the banks involved was the Péreire brothers' bank,the:

The Great Famine of 1845-1849:

By the late nineteenth century,the core industrial countries of Europe included:

The British "navvies" were:

Wealth had the central role in forming a middle-class identity.

Illegitimacy rates in preindustrial Europe were in the very low single digits but rose significantly-to 25 and 33 percent in some countries-following industrialization.A primary cause of this was:

While the housing in the cities did not allow for gardens,families were able to gain access to good,cheap food at city markets,thanks to the increasingly inexpensive transportation systems.

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793,the cotton gin:

All of the following innovations belonged to the first phase of the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT:

Direct communication between the United States and Europe was not possible until:

How accurate is the image of "passionless" Victorian sexuality,and why was such an image cultivated?

What determined the division of the working class into subgroups?

Politicians and social reformers understood all of the following as comprising "the social question" EXCEPT: