Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

Working people had an advocate for their plight in the writings of:

The Industrial Revolution intensified human labor much more often than it eased it.

The "angel in the house" referred to:

The British "navvies" were:

The Industrial Revolution caused changes in all of the following areas EXCEPT:

One of the greatest obstacles to freely buying and selling land and the commercialization of agriculture in nineteenth-century Europe was:

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

Which pairing is correct?

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,such as:

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:

The rapid expansion of the textile industry in Great Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries had at least one unintended consequence: a revolution in:

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

One of the developments that hastened the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine,originally developed to remove water from mines by:

Illegitimacy in preindustrial Europe was in the very low single digits but rose significantly-to 25 and 33 percent in some countries-following industrialization.A primary cause of this was:

The nineteenth-century banking revolution was accompanied by scandal; the greatest of the banks involved was the Péreire brothers' bank,the:

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.

Samuel Smiles is best known for advancing the middle-class ethic of:

Which statement best describes the Industrial Revolution?

Direct communication between the United States and Europe was not possible until:

In the nineteenth century,middle-class success stories were mostly a myth since: