Question 1

The labor force of the early rural textile factories was recruited primarily from what group?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cottage industry workers 
B)  Young children abandoned by their parents 
C)  Persons from debtors' prisons 
D)  Young Irishmen 
A)  Cottage industry workers 
B)  Young children abandoned by their parents 
C)  Persons from debtors' prisons 
D)  Young Irishmen

Question 2

The Mines Act of 1842 prohibited underground work for all women because of concerns about which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  The extremely hard physical labor demanded of the work 
B)  The sexual morality of the miners 
C)  The danger to the health of the fetus in pregnant female miners 
D)  The low rates of pay for women as compared to men 
A)  The extremely hard physical labor demanded of the work 
B)  The sexual morality of the miners 
C)  The danger to the health of the fetus in pregnant female miners 
D)  The low rates of pay for women as compared to men

Question 3

Who invented the spinning jenny around 1765?

Accepted Answer

A)  James Hargreaves 
B)  Friedrich Engels 
C)  Samuel Crompton 
D)  James Watt 
A)  James Hargreaves 
B)  Friedrich Engels 
C)  Samuel Crompton 
D)  James Watt

Question 4

How did continental governments promote industry?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Government

Question 5

On the European continent, who took on the majority of the costs of building railroads?

Accepted Answer

A)  The governments 
B)  Private investors 
C)  Commercial banks 
D)  Conglomerates 
A)  The governments 
B)  Private investors 
C)  Commercial banks 
D)  Conglomerates

Question 6

How does this illustration demonstrate the effect of Britain on India's textile industry?

Accepted Answer

A)  It depicts enslaved Indian peoples laboring for Britain's textile industry. 
B)  The relatively small number of workers reflects the diminished need for unskilled labor in the
Packing industry. 
C)  The small size of this packing operation reflects diminished British demand for Indian cotton. 
D)  It depicts Indian textile workers packing cotton, which was the only sector of India's textile
Industry not wiped out by British entry into textile manufacturing. 
A)  It depicts enslaved Indian peoples laboring for Britain's textile industry. 
B)  The relatively small number of workers reflects the diminished need for unskilled labor in the
Packing industry. 
C)  The small size of this packing operation reflects diminished British demand for Indian cotton. 
D)  It depicts Indian textile workers packing cotton, which was the only sector of India's textile
Industry not wiped out by British entry into textile manufacturing.

Question 7

What did Edmund Cartwright invent in 1785?

Accepted Answer

A)  A hybrid jenny and water frame 
B)  A special cotton harvester 
C)  A power loom 
D)  A better steam engine 
A)  A hybrid jenny and water frame 
B)  A special cotton harvester 
C)  A power loom 
D)  A better steam engine

Question 8

Which of these accurately describes employment patterns in British factories after 1833?

Accepted Answer

A)  The number of adults employed in industry declined rapidly. 
B)  The number of children employed in industry declined rapidly. 
C)  The number of children employed in industry increased rapidly. 
D)  The number of union members employed in industry declined rapidly. 
A)  The number of adults employed in industry declined rapidly. 
B)  The number of children employed in industry declined rapidly. 
C)  The number of children employed in industry increased rapidly. 
D)  The number of union members employed in industry declined rapidly.

Question 9

Use the following to answer questions :
-Rocket

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

Why were cottage workers so reluctant to work in the factories?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Cottage wo

Question 11

Why did early textile factories turn to abandoned children for labor, and under what conditions did these children live and work?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Because th

Question 12

By the mid-nineteenth century, a new paradigm of social relations suggested that

Accepted Answer

A)  individuals were members of separate classes based on their relationship to the means of production. 
B)  most people did not develop an awareness of their particular social class. 
C)  an ideal society would adopt equality for women. 
D)  peasants and industrial workers saw themselves as united "laborers" against the traditional aristocracy. 
A)  individuals were members of separate classes based on their relationship to the means of production. 
B)  most people did not develop an awareness of their particular social class. 
C)  an ideal society would adopt equality for women. 
D)  peasants and industrial workers saw themselves as united "laborers" against the traditional aristocracy.

Question 13

Use the following to answer questions :
-Mines Act of 1842

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 14

Where is the impact of the Industrial Revolution apparent in the design of the Crystal Palace?

Accepted Answer

A)  Stronger grades of iron made the multitier design made possible. 
B)  The revolution made glass and iron both cheap and abundant. 
C)  The large, wide-open floor plan was inspired by factories similar in design. 
D)  There is a mass-produced statuary on the ground floor. 
A)  Stronger grades of iron made the multitier design made possible. 
B)  The revolution made glass and iron both cheap and abundant. 
C)  The large, wide-open floor plan was inspired by factories similar in design. 
D)  There is a mass-produced statuary on the ground floor.

Question 15

Why was Britain the first industrial nation?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Several fa

Question 16

In 1802, the British Parliament banned which of the following in factories?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women workers 
B)  The use of pauper apprentices 
C)  Employing whole families 
D)  Overseers 
A)  Women workers 
B)  The use of pauper apprentices 
C)  Employing whole families 
D)  Overseers

Question 17

Which of these was created by the Factory Act of 1833?

Accepted Answer

A)  A standard set of wage guidelines 
B)  A set of environmental regulations for factories 
C)  A system of full-time factory inspectors 
D)  A new administrative department to encourage industrial growth 
A)  A standard set of wage guidelines 
B)  A set of environmental regulations for factories 
C)  A system of full-time factory inspectors 
D)  A new administrative department to encourage industrial growth

Question 18

Handicraft workers who smashed the new machines they believed were putting them out of work were known as what?

Accepted Answer

A)  Socialists 
B)  Communists 
C)  Luddites 
D)  Wobblies 
A)  Socialists 
B)  Communists 
C)  Luddites 
D)  Wobblies

Question 19

What evidence in this illustration indicates that this woman is working a spinning jenny?

Accepted Answer

A)  She is working it by hand. 
B)  She is working with spindles of thread. 
C)  The machine has a complex frame design. 
D)  The machine contains rollers similar in design to that of the water frame. 
A)  She is working it by hand. 
B)  She is working with spindles of thread. 
C)  The machine has a complex frame design. 
D)  The machine contains rollers similar in design to that of the water frame.

Question 20

Use the following to answer questions :
-Combination Acts

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.

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

The labor force of the early rural textile factories was recruited primarily from what group?

The Mines Act of 1842 prohibited underground work for all women because of concerns about which of the following?

Who invented the spinning jenny around 1765?

How did continental governments promote industry?

On the European continent, who took on the majority of the costs of building railroads?

How does this illustration demonstrate the effect of Britain on India's textile industry?

What did Edmund Cartwright invent in 1785?

Which of these accurately describes employment patterns in British factories after 1833?

Use the following to answer questions : -Rocket

Why were cottage workers so reluctant to work in the factories?

Why did early textile factories turn to abandoned children for labor, and under what conditions did these children live and work?

By the mid-nineteenth century, a new paradigm of social relations suggested that

Use the following to answer questions : -Mines Act of 1842

Where is the impact of the Industrial Revolution apparent in the design of the Crystal Palace?

Why was Britain the first industrial nation?

In 1802, the British Parliament banned which of the following in factories?

Which of these was created by the Factory Act of 1833?

Handicraft workers who smashed the new machines they believed were putting them out of work were known as what?

What evidence in this illustration indicates that this woman is working a spinning jenny?

Use the following to answer questions : -Combination Acts

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