Deck 31: The Early Industrial Revolution

Question 1

In the centuries following the advent of the industrial revolution, massive numbers of people moved to the cities for various reasons. What was this movement of population called?

A)Peasant relocation.
B)Urban Diaspora.
C)Urban migration.
D)Overpopulation.
E)Urban decay.

Answer 1

Urban migration.

Question 2

What symbolizes and powers the currently ongoing Third Industrial Revolution?

A)The computer.
B)The government.
C)The automobile.
D)The airplane.
E)Fossil fuels.

Answer 2

The computer.

Question 3

The National Constituent Assembly swore not to leave Paris until

A)taxes on the middle class were reduced.
B)Louis XVI abdicated the throne.
C)peasants were granted land ownership.
D)France had a constitution.
E)land was confiscated from the church.

Answer 3

France had a constitution.

Question 4

French higher clergy and nobility owned what proportion of the real estate in France?

A)20
B)40
C)30
D)59
E)75

Question 5

What was the new source of energy that was key to industrialization as a mechanical process?

A)Sea power.
B)Solar power.
C)Steam power.
D)Horsepower.
E)Manpower.

Question 6

The Constitution of 1791 was modeled closely on the government of

A)England.
B)Switzerland.
C)Germany.
D)the United States.
E)the Netherlands.

Question 7

What was the primary aim of industrial production?

A)Allow the British to extend their empire by building better ships and guns.
B)Lessen the unit cost of production through improved technology.
C)Provide good wages for workers and improve their lives via government welfare programs.
D)Help farmers by having a large urban workforce who needs their farm products.
E)Help raise civilian morale levels through strict regulation of work and leisure hours.

Question 8

The confrontation between France's king and the National Assembly began in 1789, with

A)the storming of the Bastille.
B)the establishment of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
C)arrest of the queen.
D)the writing of a new constitution.
E)a demand for "one man, one vote."

Question 9

Among the thousands of products that became more available and affordable during the course of the industrial revolution, what was one of the earlier products the benefited men and women directly?

A)The iron plow.
B)Rifled firearms.
C)Hybrid seeds..
D)Underclothing.
E)Printed books.

Question 10

Napoleon did all of the following EXCEPT

A)create legal and civil codes.
B)dealt successfully with France's finances.
C)created administrative and judicial systems that are still around today.
D)called for free and open elections for all governmental positions.
E)granted legal title to peasants for the land they had seized.

Question 11

As agricultural improvements spread from Holland to Britain, how did the British landlords react?

A)They waited to see how successful the Dutch would be.
B)They made few changes that brought somewhat increased crop yields for local villagers.
C)They enthusiastically adopted the new techniques and began to produce crops for sale in the cities.
D)They hesitated to change methods, concerned about what would happen to their loyal workers.
E)They rejected the enclosed field system, because their plots of land were so small.

Question 12

Which of the following were some of the prerequisites for the industrial revolution?

A)Legal changes that forced women in to the workplace, outlawed child labor, and ended private farm holdings.
B)An upsurge in world trade and a social revolution to start the dictatorship of the proletariat.
C)A society willing to embrace child labor and involuntary servitude among the working classes.
D)An upsurge in world trade, a rising population, and an increase in the flow of money.
E)A monopoly on the knowledge of how to use stream and cornering the world markets on iron ore.

Question 13

What was the term used to refer to some of the reforms that were enacted in 1819 and 1833 to reduce labor abuses?

A)The Industrial Revolution.
B)The Factory Acts.
C)The Bill of Rights.
D)The Magna Carta.
E)The Declaration of Rights of Man.

Question 14

The counterrevolution began in protest over the

A)Declaration of the Rights of Man.
B)Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
C)Storming of the Bastille.
D)Jacobin Terror.
E)execution of the king and queen.

Question 15

The levee en masse enabled France to acquire a

A)redistribution of wealth.
B)radical constitution.
C)army of draftees.
D)state-controlled church.
E)better trade situation.

Question 16

The role of women in the French Revolution could best be described as

A)severely limited.
B)inconsequential.
C)nonexistent.
D)active.
E)crucial to Jacobin success.

Question 17

Before the eighteenth century, what was the more common system for entrepreneurial production?

A)Slave labor.
B)The putting out system.
C)The factory system.
D)Government work.
E)Collective work sites.

Question 18

In the Estates General, voting was based on

A)one's income.
B)the amount of taxes one paid.
C)educational level.
D)proportional representation.
E)estates that voted as a bloc.

Question 19

Which of the following best describes some of the major advantages railroads had over more traditional shipping methods in the nineteenth century?

A)The railroads had an attraction similar to roller coasters today.
B)The railroads brought families together for Sunday afternoon rides.
C)The railroads could be used to impress colonial populations with their "magic".
D)Railroads could go anywhere anytime so they had more mobility than other shipping means.
E)The railroads greatly reduced costs of shipping and personal travel.

Question 20

The industrial revolution's new processes spread slowly from England to other countries. What was one of the contributing factors to slowing the spread of technology?

A)The breakdown of the diffusion theory that kept new ideas and techniques from spreading .
B)England treating industrial techniques as state secrets to protect their technological knowledge.
C)The relative ignorance of non-English peoples when it came to mechanical devices.
D)The fear of steam and its potential for dangerous scalding of human skin.
E)England didn't understand the magnitude of the industrial revolution so the information was not communicated.

Question 21

Which of the following was least considered in the negotiations at Vienna?

A)The right of forcibly deposed monarchs to regain their thrones.
B)The right of working people to determine their form of government.
C)The responsibility of nations to work together to promote peace.
D)The need to suppress rebellions in the future.
E)None of the options are correct.

Question 22

The Napoleonic Settlement included an agreement with the ____________________ that gave the government more control over religious matters than it had before.

Question 23

Which of these was not true of Napoleon Bonaparte?

A)When he became monarch of France in 1804, he symbolically crowned himself.
B)For several years, popularity at home allowed him to build up a large conscript army and impose heavy taxes to supply his men.
C)Napoleon's formal title was emperor, because he led a country that by then had a significant empire.
D)Napoleon is often given credit for being the greatest military strategist of the modern age.
E)Napoleon never meant to found a dynasty to replace the Bourbons, but his supporters convinced him to take that path.

Question 24

Napoleon's military forces were known as ____________________.

Question 25

Term for identification: enclosed field system

Question 26

Despite the  many improvements in the lives of the ordinary people, the area of ____________________ was notable for its lack of improvement from ancient times up to the eighteenth century.

Question 27

Negotiators of the Vienna Settlement drew up territorial boundaries according to

A)ethnic differences.
B)religious differences.
C)desires of the local peoples.
D)ideas of liberalism and social reform.
E)None of the options are correct.

Question 28

The battle of Trafalgar

A)ensured French domination of most of the Continent.
B)frustrated a potential French invasion of England.
C)knocked the Russians out of the anti-French coalition.
D)made it necessary for France to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States.
E)was Napoleon's last victory over England.

Question 29

After war broke out with Prussia and Austria in 1792, the radical ____________________ took over the government in France.

Question 30

The executive power during the Terror was exercised by the ____________________.

Question 31

The Jacobin Terror ended only with

A)Napoleon's coup d'etat.
B)Danton's execution.
C)Napoleon's execution.
D)Louis XVI's execution.
E)Robespierre's execution.

Question 32

The levee en masse was the ____________________ assembled by the Jacobins to fight for the Revolution.

Question 33

Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign was actually fought against

A)Russia.
B)Britain.
C)Morocco.
D)Spain.
E)Austria.

Question 34

The remnants of Napoleon's army that tried to capture Russia were eventually saved from starvation in the Russian winter by

A)the end of Winter.
B)backup troops from Poland.
C)their arrival in friendly Polish territory.
D)their eating their horses.
E)the arrival of French replacements.

Question 35

The Thermidorean Reaction was aimed against

A)the extreme measures taken during the Reign of Terror.
B)the King's tyranny.
C)the execution of the King.
D)the Directory's incompetence.
E)Napoleon's intrigues.

Question 36

According to your authors, what leader came closest to amassing the necessary qualities to be labeled a true "enlightened despot"?

A)Louis XIV
B)Louis XV
C)Napoleon
D)Robespierre
E)Prince Metternich

Question 37

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy provided for ____________________ of the church's property.

Question 38

The ____________________, fought with Napoleon on one side and a coalition of Russian, Prussian, and Austrian forces on the other, led to Napoleon's abdication.

Question 39

In comparison to the government of the Jacobin Terror, the Directory may be described as more

A)liberal.
B)accepting.
C)conservative.
D)radical.
E)autocratic.

Question 40

The shift from the putting out system to the ____________________ resulted in an entrepreneur or a company gathering relatively large numbers of individual workers in one place for work and supervision.

Question 41

Term for identification: Richard Arkwright

Question 42

Evaluate Napoleon as a leader.

Question 43

Term for identification: bourgeoisie

Question 44

Discuss the changes in French government during this turbulent period in French history, highlighting liberalism and conservatism.

Question 45

Term for identification: spinning jenny/ spinning mule

Question 46

Term for identification: First and Second Industrial Revolution

Question 47

Term for identification: Watt and Boulton

Question 48

Discuss the changes in the lives of people living in newly-industrialized countries. Consider their living standards, prices on manufactured goods, and which job fields were new to the industrial revolution, and eventual reforms to improve the lives of workers.

Question 49

Describe and discuss the focus of the Jacobin regime. In what ways did it implement its policies of "terror"?

Question 50

Term for identification: putting-out system

Question 51

Define the essential elements of the Vienna Settlement. How successful was the agreement?

Question 52

Term for identification: Edward Chadwick

Question 53

Examine the reasons for England emerging as the leader of the industrial revolution. Include the natural advantages and social characteristics that enabled England to lead the rest of the world until well into the nineteenth century.

Question 54

Term for identification: Edmund Cartwright

Question 55

Term for identification: Eli Whitney