Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

Many nineteenth-century doctors and scientists attributed women's supposed moral superiority to their:

What did the British poet William Blake describe as "these dark satanic mills?"

An average house in the United States today contains approximately 1,500 to 2,000 square feet.In Leeds,England,in the 1840s,an average house contained _________ square feet for an entire family.

There were many inventions that improved textile manufacturing in the 1700s,but the first of these was the "flying shuttle," which was invented by:

Queen Victoria of England ascended to the throne in 1837 and became one of the country's most successful monarchs,in no small measure because she:

The "angel in the house" referred to:

By the mid-nineteenth century,the world economy had divided into two major groups:

The Victorian attitude toward gender roles is best summarized by the lines "Man for the field and woman for the hearth; man for the sword and she for the needle. . . . All else is confusion" was written by:

The British "navvies" were:

In 1860,the largest single occupational category in Great Britain was the agricultural laborer.

What factors were behind the population growth of the nineteenth century?

The sexuality of working-class women was:

What determined the division of the working class into subgroups?

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

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,industries such as:

A central difference in the development of industrialization in Great Britain and the United States on the one hand and continental Europe on the other was the involvement of:

Which pairing is correct?

Fully one and a half centuries after industrialization began in Great Britain,the largest single occupational category was that of _________ workers.

Balzac believed the changes of the French Revolution and industrialization had merely replaced an old aristocracy with a new one: a materialistic middle class.

Britain's cotton industry was a direct result of the tariffs protecting the British wool industry,which prohibited imports of Indian cottons.