Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

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," written by:

The new innovation of apartment living in Paris meant the rich and the poor would often inhabit the same building.

The first modern railway connected Stockton to Manchester to transport coal from the mines.

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

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:

Continental Europe lagged behind Great Britain in industrializing due primarily to:

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

The rapid growth of European cities such as Manchester,Birmingham,and Essen was due to:

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

Most of the labor force in Russia was made up of _________,who remained bound to the land and did not profit from their labor until 1861.

The internal combustion engine was developed by:

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

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

The French novelist _________ scandalized society by dressing like a man,smoking cigars,and writing about independent women who thwarted convention and unhappy marriages.

The Crédit Mobilier,founded in 1852,was: