Question 1

Outside of Europe, what country industrialized the earliest?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Ottoman Empire 
B)  India 
C)  Japan 
D)  Egypt 
A)  The Ottoman Empire 
B)  India 
C)  Japan 
D)  Egypt C

Question 2

The emerging industrial areas pictured on this map are all located near which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ironworks 
B)  Completed railroads 
C)  Major rivers 
D)  Exposed coal deposits 
A)  Ironworks 
B)  Completed railroads 
C)  Major rivers 
D)  Exposed coal deposits C

Question 3

What was one of the major limitations of the putting-out system in the British textile industry?

Accepted Answer

A)  There was not enough cotton to meet demand. 
B)  There were too many spinners driving prices down. 
C)  There was an overabundance of thread. 
D)  There were not enough spinners to meet demand. 
A)  There was not enough cotton to meet demand. 
B)  There were too many spinners driving prices down. 
C)  There was an overabundance of thread. 
D)  There were not enough spinners to meet demand. D

Question 4

Use the following to answer questions :
-Industrial Revolution

Accepted Answer

A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824. 
A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824.

Question 5

After the fall of Napoleon in 1815, industrialization began to spread to the European continent. Trace the course of industrial development there. What were the key features of this development? What were the positive and negative aspects of being a "follower" nation?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The spread

Question 6

Describe some of the challenges of the putting-out system. How did those challenges contribute to the development of new technologies?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Despite th

Question 7

Coal was an essential ingredient in the manufacture of what eighteenth-century product?

Accepted Answer

A)  Iron 
B)  Grain 
C)  Road gravel 
D)  Cloth 
A)  Iron 
B)  Grain 
C)  Road gravel 
D)  Cloth

Question 8

What was one unintended negative consequence of the British Factory Acts?

Accepted Answer

A)  They broke the pattern of whole families working together. 
B)  They led to a sharp increase in child labor. 
C)  They led to a sharp increase in inflation. 
D)  They intensified class divisions. 
A)  They broke the pattern of whole families working together. 
B)  They led to a sharp increase in child labor. 
C)  They led to a sharp increase in inflation. 
D)  They intensified class divisions.

Question 9

Use the following to answer questions :
-Luddites

Accepted Answer

A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824. 
A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824.

Question 10

What did the British economist Thomas Malthus conclude in his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population?

Accepted Answer

A)  That population pressure would always force wages down to subsistence levels 
B)  That men and women should limit population growth by marrying late in life 
C)  That the standard of living was a reflection of industrial capacity 
D)  That checks to population growth would harm the British economy 
A)  That population pressure would always force wages down to subsistence levels 
B)  That men and women should limit population growth by marrying late in life 
C)  That the standard of living was a reflection of industrial capacity 
D)  That checks to population growth would harm the British economy

Question 11

The railroad has been called the crowning glory of the Industrial Revolution. Describe the impact of the railroad on the development of industry in Britain and on the European continent.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Stephenson

Question 12

Use the following to answer questions :
-water frame

Accepted Answer

A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824. 
A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824.

Question 13

The Condition of the Working Class in England proposed that

Accepted Answer

A)  the social problems in Britain were not a product of the Industrial Revolution. 
B)  industrialization had brought intensified capitalist exploitation and deepening worker poverty. 
C)  industrialization was generally good for society and that the living conditions of the working class were slowly improving. 
D)  the class-consciousness of the working class would lead to social revolution. 
A)  the social problems in Britain were not a product of the Industrial Revolution. 
B)  industrialization had brought intensified capitalist exploitation and deepening worker poverty. 
C)  industrialization was generally good for society and that the living conditions of the working class were slowly improving. 
D)  the class-consciousness of the working class would lead to social revolution.

Question 14

One reason that cottage workers were reluctant to work in factories is that they resembled which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Schools 
B)  Churches 
C)  Hospitals 
D)  Poorhouses 
A)  Schools 
B)  Churches 
C)  Hospitals 
D)  Poorhouses

Question 15

Who invented the steam-powered rolling mills, which allowed for the production of iron in any shape or form?

Accepted Answer

A)  Henry Cort 
B)  James Nasmyth 
C)  Thomas Newcomen 
D)  Thomas Savery 
A)  Henry Cort 
B)  James Nasmyth 
C)  Thomas Newcomen 
D)  Thomas Savery

Question 16

Use the following to answer questions :
-class-consciousness

Accepted Answer

A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824. 
A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824.

Question 17

Use the following to answer questions :
-Factory Act of 1833

Accepted Answer

A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824. 
A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824.

Question 18

Use the following to answer questions :
-separate spheres

Accepted Answer

A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824. 
A) A term first coined in the 1830s to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that took place in certain industries, such as cotton textiles and iron, between 1780 and 1850. 
B) A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by James Hargreaves about 1765. 
C) A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill-a factory. 
D) A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to operate a pump. 
E) The name given to George Stephenson's effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and reached a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour.
F)The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
G)Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the subsistence level.
H)A government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to the flood of cheaper British goods in their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.
I)English law that led to a sharp decline in the employment of children by limiting the hours that children over age nine could work and banning employment of children younger than nine.
J)A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner.
K)English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten.
L)Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
M)An individual's sense of class differentiation, a term introduced by Karl Marx.
N)English laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824.

Question 19

By reducing the cost of shipping freight, the railroad

Accepted Answer

A)  proved to be a boon to cottage workers and urban artisans. 
B)  reduced the volume of world trade. 
C)  strengthened regional economies. 
D)  created national markets. 
A)  proved to be a boon to cottage workers and urban artisans. 
B)  reduced the volume of world trade. 
C)  strengthened regional economies. 
D)  created national markets.

Question 20

In 1850, what two occupations employed the most people in Britain?

Accepted Answer

A)  Farming and domestic service 
B)  Domestic service and coal mining 
C)  Factory labor and coal mining 
D)  Factory labor and farming 
A)  Farming and domestic service 
B)  Domestic service and coal mining 
C)  Factory labor and coal mining 
D)  Factory labor and farming

Exam 23: The Revolution in Energy and Industry, 1760-1850

Outside of Europe, what country industrialized the earliest?

The emerging industrial areas pictured on this map are all located near which of the following?

What was one of the major limitations of the putting-out system in the British textile industry?

Use the following to answer questions : -Industrial Revolution

After the fall of Napoleon in 1815, industrialization began to spread to the European continent. Trace the course of industrial development there. What were the key features of this development? What were the positive and negative aspects of being a "follower" nation?

Describe some of the challenges of the putting-out system. How did those challenges contribute to the development of new technologies?

Coal was an essential ingredient in the manufacture of what eighteenth-century product?

What was one unintended negative consequence of the British Factory Acts?

Use the following to answer questions : -Luddites

What did the British economist Thomas Malthus conclude in his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population?

The railroad has been called the crowning glory of the Industrial Revolution. Describe the impact of the railroad on the development of industry in Britain and on the European continent.

Use the following to answer questions : -water frame

The Condition of the Working Class in England proposed that

One reason that cottage workers were reluctant to work in factories is that they resembled which of the following?

Who invented the steam-powered rolling mills, which allowed for the production of iron in any shape or form?

Use the following to answer questions : -class-consciousness

Use the following to answer questions : -Factory Act of 1833

Use the following to answer questions : -separate spheres

By reducing the cost of shipping freight, the railroad

In 1850, what two occupations employed the most people in Britain?

The Earliest Human Societies, to 2500 Bce

Complex Societies in Southwest Asia and the Nile Valley, 3800-500 Bce

The Foundation of Indian Society, to 300 Ce

Chinas Classical Age, to 221 Bce

The Greek Experience, 3500-30 Bce

The World of Rome, Ca 1000 Bce-400 Ce

East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, 221 Bce-845 Ce

Continuity and Change in Europe and Western Asia, 250-850

The Islamic World, 600-1400

African Societies and Kingdoms, 1000 Bce-1500 Ce

The Americas, 3200 Bce-1500 Ce

Cultural Exchange in Central and Southern Asia, 300-1400

States and Cultures in East Asia, 800-1400

Europe and Western Asia in the Middle Ages, 800-1450

Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600

The Acceleration of Global Contact, 1450-1600

The Islamic World Powers, 1300-1800

European Power and Expansion, 1500-1750

New Worldviews and Ways of Life, 1540-1790

Africa and the World, 1400-1800

Continuity and Change in East Asia, 1400-1800

Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775-1825

Ideologies of Change in Europe, 1815-1914

Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and the New Imperialism, 1800-1914

Asia and the Pacific in the Era of Imperialism, 1800-1914

The Americas in the Age of Liberalism, 1810-1917

World War and Revolution, 1914-1929

Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939

The Great Depression and World War Ii, 1929-1945

Review

Liberalization, 1968-2000s

The Contemporary World in Historical Perspective

20th Century Global Issues and Developments

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