Exam 10: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

According to advice manuals,poetry,and middle-class journals,middle-class wives and mothers were supposed to occupy a "separate sphere" of life,in which they lived in subordination to their spouses.

The mining industry in England expanded rapidly with industrialization due to the increased demand for:

Thomas Malthus argued that:

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

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:

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

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

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

Some of the ecological problems brought about by the Industrial Revolution include:

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.

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

Population growth in the nineteenth century was mainly the result of:

Despite the advances of the Industrial Revolution,many countries still had a high percentage of the population that was engaged in food production.Which of the following countries had the highest percentage of the population engaged in food production?

One of the most ambitious projects of river engineering was the modification of the Rhine River in Germany in the nineteenth century.

Irish emigration-even before the Potato Famine-accounted for _____ of voluntary migration to the New World.

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

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

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

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

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