Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

The Industrial Revolution led to the development of a great many capital-intensive enterprises,new ways of organizing people's labor,and the rapid growth of cities.

Middle-class leisure included concerts,parks,bathing spots,museums,and even department stores.

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:

The sexuality of working-class women was:

Farmers and agricultural workers in England in the 1820s burned barns and haystacks under the banner of their mythical leader,Captain Swing,to protest the:

Children commonly worked from a very young age; in Britain more than 50,000 worked in:

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

The development of the steam engine decisively transformed the nineteenth-century world._________ was one of its many applications.

Most prostitutes were women who were trying to manage during a period of unemployment,rather than professional sex workers.

While the spinning mule could make two to three hundred times as much thread as a hand spinner could,the quality of the new thread was weaker and thicker.

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

While the housing in the cities did not allow for gardens,families were able to gain access to good,cheap food at city markets,thanks to the increasingly inexpensive transportation systems.

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

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793,the cotton gin:

The domination of the world by European industry was,in general,a result of:

In what ways did the Continent attempt to reproduce by design what Britain had produced by chance in the Industrial Revolution?

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

What was the impact of the ideals behind "the Cult of Domesticity" on women in the nineteenth century?

One of the most important preconditions of industrialization that was best established in Great Britain was:

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