Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-century Society

Of all the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution,perhaps the most revolutionary was in the new forms of energy that were discovered.

Only after a series of factory acts was the employment of children in mines and mills under the age of eighteen made illegal.

Railways were constructed almost entirely without aid of machinery.

Which statement best describes the Industrial Revolution?

What determined the division of the working class into subgroups?

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

The Great Famine of 1845-1849:

One explanation for Britain's lead in the Industrial Revolution was that:

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

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

What social,economic,and natural preconditions for industrialization made Britain the home of the Industrial Revolution?

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

The British "navvies" were:

The Crédit Mobilier,founded in 1852,was:

Even with the interconnectedness of industry,wherein an improvement in one area led to improvements in other areas,there was one dual foundation on which the rest was built; that foundation was:

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

In nineteenth-century society,the "middle class" was unified by similar or common:

What was the effect of industrialization on the city?

The British government,concerned with working conditions in the early 1800s,held a series of hearings and upon learning of conditions that existed in British factories:

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