Question 1

Abundant local capital and limits on British imports allowed for the robust growth of new manufacturing operations in India.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

define the following term:
-Great Exhibition of 1851

Accepted Answer

The Great Exhibition of 1851 was a world

Question 3

define the following term:
-Ten Hours Act of 1847

Accepted Answer

The Ten Hours Act of 1847 was a signific

Question 4

define the following term:
-factory acts

Accepted Answer

The Factory Acts were a series of laws p

Question 5

Edwin Chadwick

Accepted Answer

A) was a leader in expressing the dislike of the middle class for the working poor. 
B) wrote the Treatise on the Iron Law of Wages . 
C) advocated modern sanitary reforms that resulted in Britain's first Public Health Act. 
D) was representative of the new entrepreneurial, industrial class. 
E) opposed any and all government involvement in economic and social issues. 
A) was a leader in expressing the dislike of the middle class for the working poor. 
B) wrote the Treatise on the Iron Law of Wages . 
C) advocated modern sanitary reforms that resulted in Britain's first Public Health Act. 
D) was representative of the new entrepreneurial, industrial class. 
E) opposed any and all government involvement in economic and social issues.

Question 6

Compare and contrast the patterns of industrialization in Continental Europe and the United States with that of Great Britain.

Accepted Answer

The patterns of industrialization in Con

Question 7

define the following term:
-suburbs

Accepted Answer

Suburbs are residential areas that are t

Question 8

Friedrich List showed how Germany could catch up with British industry by

Accepted Answer

A) using serfs to provide cheap labor in factories. 
B) paying workers extremely high wages, as Henry Ford would later do. 
C) protecting infant industries with high tariffs. 
D) freeing private enterprise from government interference. 
E) conquering neighboring countries to provide captive markets. 
A) using serfs to provide cheap labor in factories. 
B) paying workers extremely high wages, as Henry Ford would later do. 
C) protecting infant industries with high tariffs. 
D) freeing private enterprise from government interference. 
E) conquering neighboring countries to provide captive markets.

Question 9

The so-called American System

Accepted Answer

A) involved the use of high tariffs to protect new industries. 
B) reduced costs and revolutionized production through labor-saving innovations in manufacturing. 
C) referred to the establishment of a common market for the western hemisphere. 
D) embraced free trade and the absence of tariffs. 
E) was reminiscent of the medieval guild system of wage and price controls. 
A) involved the use of high tariffs to protect new industries. 
B) reduced costs and revolutionized production through labor-saving innovations in manufacturing. 
C) referred to the establishment of a common market for the western hemisphere. 
D) embraced free trade and the absence of tariffs. 
E) was reminiscent of the medieval guild system of wage and price controls.

Question 10

The English Poor Law Act of 1834

Accepted Answer

A) established workhouses where jobless poor people were forced to live. 
B) placed a tax rate of 50 percent on the wealthy and redistributed that money to the poor. 
C) never got out of parliament. 
D) reclassified people with less than one hundred pounds annual income as poor. 
E) forced the poor into the British navy. 
A) established workhouses where jobless poor people were forced to live. 
B) placed a tax rate of 50 percent on the wealthy and redistributed that money to the poor. 
C) never got out of parliament. 
D) reclassified people with less than one hundred pounds annual income as poor. 
E) forced the poor into the British navy.

Question 11

define the following term:
-the factory

Accepted Answer

The term "the factory" refers to a build

Question 12

The Industrial Revolution's effect on the standard of living

Accepted Answer

A) especially benefited the middle classes. 
B) led to much increased disparity between the richest and poorest classes in society. 
C) eventually led to an overall increase in purchasing power for the working classes. 
D) all of the above. 
E) none of the above. 
A) especially benefited the middle classes. 
B) led to much increased disparity between the richest and poorest classes in society. 
C) eventually led to an overall increase in purchasing power for the working classes. 
D) all of the above. 
E) none of the above.

Question 13

define the following term:
-canals

Accepted Answer

Canals have played a significant role in

Question 14

A frequent method employed to make the many very young boys and girls working in new British industries obey the owner's factory discipline was

Accepted Answer

A) the promise of increased wages. 
B) deportation to the colonies. 
C) heavy fines for lost time. 
D) lectures and schooling in the rules to parents. 
E) repeated beatings. 
A) the promise of increased wages. 
B) deportation to the colonies. 
C) heavy fines for lost time. 
D) lectures and schooling in the rules to parents. 
E) repeated beatings.

Question 15

The Great Hunger in Ireland stemmed from the spread of a fungus that attacked

Accepted Answer

A) cattle. 
B) sheep. 
C) the wheat crop. 
D) the rye and barley crops. 
E) the potato crop. 
A) cattle. 
B) sheep. 
C) the wheat crop. 
D) the rye and barley crops. 
E) the potato crop.

Question 16

In 1804, Richard Trevithick pioneered

Accepted Answer

A) an oil-fired locomotive. 
B) the steering wheel for trains. 
C) the first steam-powered locomotive on an industrial rail line. 
D) the first electric-powered locomotive for military use. 
E) the motion-picture camera. 
A) an oil-fired locomotive. 
B) the steering wheel for trains. 
C) the first steam-powered locomotive on an industrial rail line. 
D) the first electric-powered locomotive for military use. 
E) the motion-picture camera.

Question 17

The infrastructure advantages in Britain promoting rapid industrialization included all of the following except

Accepted Answer

A) canals. 
B) roads. 
C) bridges. 
D) internal customs posts. 
E) railroads. 
A) canals. 
B) roads. 
C) bridges. 
D) internal customs posts. 
E) railroads.

Question 18

define the following term:
-industrial factory

Accepted Answer

Industrial factories play a crucial role

Question 19

define the following term:
-the workhouse

Accepted Answer

The workhouse was a place established in

Question 20

Discus the impact of the early Industrial Revolution upon the family, the role of women, and the living and working conditions of the industrial workers?

Accepted Answer

The early Industrial Revolution had a si

Exam 20: The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Abundant local capital and limits on British imports allowed for the robust growth of new manufacturing operations in India.

define the following term: -Great Exhibition of 1851

define the following term: -Ten Hours Act of 1847

define the following term: -factory acts

Edwin Chadwick

Compare and contrast the patterns of industrialization in Continental Europe and the United States with that of Great Britain.

define the following term: -suburbs

Friedrich List showed how Germany could catch up with British industry by

The so-called American System

The English Poor Law Act of 1834

define the following term: -the factory

The Industrial Revolution's effect on the standard of living

define the following term: -canals

A frequent method employed to make the many very young boys and girls working in new British industries obey the owner's factory discipline was

The Great Hunger in Ireland stemmed from the spread of a fungus that attacked

In 1804, Richard Trevithick pioneered

The infrastructure advantages in Britain promoting rapid industrialization included all of the following except

define the following term: -industrial factory

define the following term: -the workhouse

Discus the impact of the early Industrial Revolution upon the family, the role of women, and the living and working conditions of the industrial workers?

The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Hellenistic World

The Roman Republic

The Roman Empire

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

Recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: the Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War Ii

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

Filters