Deck 17: The Industrial Revolution

Question 1

Which of these was created by James Watt?

A) a new process for creating iron
B) a locomotive
C) steam engine
D) a steamboat

Answer 1

steam engine

Question 2

Which of these industries first emerged in the second Industrial Revolution?

A) iron
B) textile
C) chemical
D) nuclear power

Answer 2

chemical

Question 3

Which of these men was co-author of The Communist Manifesto?

A) Samuel Gompers
B) Karl Marx
C) Baron Haussmann
D) Walt Whitman

Answer 3

Karl Marx

Question 4

In the nineteenth century,about ________ percent of women worked as their families' main breadwinners.

A) 15 to 20
B) 60 to 65
C) 3 to 4
D) 30 to 35

Question 5

Emmeline Pankhurst is best known for her work to achieve ________.

A) better working conditions for women
B) regulation of child labor
C) women's suffrage
D) slum clearances

Question 6

The British Corn Laws were supported by ________.

A) farmers
B) laborers
C) consumers
D) women

Question 7

Which of these men worked to improve working conditions in England in the nineteenth century?

A) Karl Marx
B) Ned Ludd
C) Edwin Chadwick
D) Jethro Tull

Question 8

The author of The Condition of the Working Class in England was ________.

A) Friedrich Engels
B) Samuel Smiles
C) David Ricardo
D) Adam Smith

Question 9

The Luddite riots targeted ________.

A) enclosures
B) textile factories
C) urban governments
D) mines

Question 10

In 1850,the population of Europe was ________ million.

A) 265
B) 140
C) 490
D) 82

Question 11

Which of these countries launched the Industrial Revolution?

A) France
B) Germany
C) the United States
D) Britain

Question 12

Which of these was first produced in 1829 by George Stephenson?

A) the Rocket
B) electricity
C) chemical fertilizer
D) synthetic rubber

Question 13

Francis Cabot Lowell developed a new ________ in the 1800s.

A) process for producing iron
B) way of generating electricity
C) voting system
D) model factory town

Question 14

The Peterloo Massacre resulted from a demonstration calling for ________.

A) women's suffrage
B) the right to strike
C) universal male suffrage
D) a shorter work day

Question 15

The water frame was used to ________.

A) weave cloth
B) power looms
C) comb cotton
D) create thread

Question 16

Which of these was created by Eli Whitney?

A) the spinning mule
B) the cotton gin
C) the first train
D) puddling process

Question 17

Hiram Maxim developed a ________ in 1883.

A) dynamo
B) machine gun
C) reaping machine
D) camera

Question 18

The first transatlantic steamship line ran in what decade?

A) 1770s
B) 1790s
C) 1810s
D) 1830s

Question 19

Which of these men developed an alternating current generator in 1892?

A) Nikola Tesla
B) Richard Arkwright
C) Thomas Edison
D) Samuel Crompton

Question 20

The first phase of the Industrial Revolution began with what industry?

A) pottery
B) textile
C) iron
D) chemical

Question 21

The poems of William Wordsworth and William Blake present ________ impressions of the impact of industrialization in London.

A) similar
B) identical
C) opposite
D) contrasting

Question 22

"Captains of industry" represented a ________ in Europe and the United States in the 1800s.

A) new nobility
B) large labor force
C) powerful new elite
D) new voting bloc

Question 23

In Great Britain,the commercialization of agriculture ________ industrialization.

A) emerged at the same time as
B) was a result of
C) fed into
D) tended to hamper

Question 24

Which of these nations banned the international slave trade in 1807?

A) Britain
B) the United States
C) Spain
D) Brazil

Question 25

On the map "The Industrial Revolution," which of these was most densely covered by its national railway system by 1850?

A) Belgium
B) France
C) Austria-Hungary
D) Switzerland

Question 26

Which of these best characterizes the consensus concerning the question "Why Did the Industrial Revolution Begin in Britain"?

A) Enclosures provided the main spark for industrialization.
B) Britain already had a partially mechanized textile industry before any other nation.
C) No one simple answer has emerged.
D) Capitalism was most advanced in Britain.

Question 27

The Industrial Revolution led to ________,particularly in Britain.

A) the development of despotism
B) expanded government activities
C) a shrinking voting population
D) the growth of aristocratic power

Question 28

In general ________ found their economic opportunities expanding during the 1800s.

A) farmers
B) married women
C) married men
D) young women

Question 29

Neocolonialism is based on ________.

A) conquest
B) economic ties
C) cultural ties
D) migration

Question 30

The Social Democratic Party,based in ________,was formed in 1875.

A) France
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) Great Britain

Question 31

For Karl Marx,________ suffered under a "double oppression."

A) children
B) working men
C) slaves
D) women

Question 32

The mechanization of the textile industry depended on ________.

A) the invention of steam power
B) many different innovations
C) mechanization in other industries
D) innovations developed in the United States

Question 33

Which of these best characterizes changes in suffrage in Britain in the 1800s?

A) Both men and women gained the right to vote.
B) All men gradually won the right to vote.
C) Propertied men won the right to vote.
D) Suffrage changed little in the 1800s.

Question 34

The demonstration that resulted in the Peterloo Massacre was the result of ________.

A) the repeal of the Corn Laws
B) the 1848 uprisings
C) a growing electorate
D) growing worker discontent

Question 35

The model garden city would have been comprised of ________.

A) several independent cities
B) a city and its agricultural hinterland
C) a core city and suburbs separated by green belts
D) a densely populated city and a series of parks

Question 36

Enclosures produced a ready supply of ________ for British industrialization.

A) cotton
B) steam power
C) iron
D) labor

Question 37

The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century was written by ________.

A) Adna Ferrin Weber
B) Charles Booth
C) Gustave Caillebotte
D) Oswald Spengler

Question 38

Which of these became a powerful new group in Western society as a result of the Industrial Revolution?

A) labor
B) nobility
C) merchants
D) farmers

Question 39

The second stage of the Industrial Revolution resulted in ________.

A) Britain gaining a monopoly on industrialization
B) new industrial leaders
C) the spread of industrialization around the world
D) the first phase of British industrialization

Question 40

The second stage of the Industrial Revolution represented ________ the first Industrial Revolution.

A) a complete reversal of
B) a replacement of
C) the spread of
D) a change in direction relative to

Question 41

In the painting Massacre of the Paris Radicals,Manet expresses ________ those pictured.

A) sympathy for
B) hatred of
C) fear of
D) ridicule of

Question 42

What were the most important impacts of the Industrial Revolution on politics?

Question 43

Which of these is supported by the painting Spinning and Weaving Wool?

A) The textile industry was the first to be mechanized because it was the simplest.
B) The textile industry was complex and labor-intensive.
C) Women dominated the textile industry after mechanization.
D) The factory system was already in place by 1600.

Question 44

Chose two elements of European or American society and compare how these two were impacted by the Industrial Revolution.

Question 45

In the painting Paris,a Rainy Day,Gustave Caillebotte appears to agree with which of these other perspectives?

A) William Blake, "London"
B) Charles Baudelaire "Parisian Scene, Daybreak"
C) William Wordsworth, "Upon Westminster Bridge"
D) Walt Whitman, "Mannahatta"

Question 46

The second stage of the Industrial Revolution differed from the first stage ________.

A) primarily in the kind of power used
B) primarily in terms of what nations dominated
C) primarily in the kinds of industries involved
D) in almost every aspect

Question 47

Did urbanization in the 1800s continue earlier trends or represent new processes?

Question 48

Where did Marx and Engels probably think the Communist revolution would begin?

A) Britain
B) Russia
C) France
D) China

Question 49

Socialism was an indirect outcome of ________.

A) the Industrial Revolution
B) the Enlightenment
C) imperialism
D) the American Revolution

Question 50

For Marx and Engels,________ would be at the heart of the coming Communist revolution.

A) women
B) peasants
C) workers
D) radicals

Question 51

When he said "I too am a socialist," Bismarck ________.

A) hoped to quiet opposition
B) inaugurated a revolution
C) abandoned his former conservative stance
D) was speaking as a nationalist

Question 52

Max Weber would probably ________ the message of the image "Back Queen Street."

A) have little interest in
B) reject
C) agree with
D) be hostile to

Question 53

Identify two or three factors that you think answer the question "Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?" Support your choices.

Question 54

In the 1800s in industrialized nations,governments tended to side with ________ in labor disputes.

A) labor unions
B) management
C) individual workers
D) skilled workers

Question 55

Should the "second Industrial Revolution" be considered a distinct phase,or merely a continuation of the first Industrial Revolution?