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Industrial Revolution Review Quiz II

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Review quiz for the Industrial Revolution
K. Asher
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Question 1

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What was the result of the development of power steamboats and locomotives?
Answer
  • People began to travel more but the availability of goods decreased
  • New jobs were created building canals and railroads and mining coal.
  • Prices of good increased as availability for these goods increased
  • These modes of transportation were quickly replaced by water-powered modes of transportation.

Question 2

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How did transportation affect the Industrial Revolution?
Answer
  • Industries developed and trade over longer distances grew.
  • It slowed the growth of the Industrial Revolution by stopping people from moving to cities.
  • Shipping goods from place to place increased in price to cover the price of building these machines.
  • Travel for humans became much more difficult and expensive.

Question 3

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During the Industrial Revolution, what fuel was used to power new transportation?
Answer
  • Coal
  • Wind
  • Gasoline
  • Water

Question 4

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How did the development of industry lead to the decline of cottage industry (Domestic System)?
Answer
  • Cottages could hold the machines for textiles, however, most cottages could not afford to power the machine.
  • The workers had better working conditions in the factories.
  • Large, expensive machines had to be housed in factories rather than at home where previous textile tools were used.
  • The quality of work on machines was a vast improvement over the low quality of work done by workers in the factories.

Question 5

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What were the working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution?
Answer
  • The work was repetitive and boring. It often resulted in people falling asleep on the job.
  • Though work was dangerous, factories set up sick and injured leave for those who needed it.
  • Workers spent long hours in the factories, often fourteen hours a day, six days a week.
  • Workers under the age of 15 were not hired to work in the factories because owners did not want the children to get hurt around the dangerous

Question 6

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Whose houses are reflected in this picture?
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  • Middle Class.
  • Upper Class.
  • Slum Class.
  • Working Class.

Question 7

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Why would capitalists want to hire so many people from ages 6-19?
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  • It was more expensive to send older people back to school for more education.
  • The factory owners would be able to make more money by paying children less.
  • The older people already had jobs and did not want to be trained for new ones
  • It was easier to train younger workers a new skill than it was to train an older worker

Question 8

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Why was England the first nation to industrialize?
Answer
  • Great Britain had the factors of production needed for industrialization.
  • Napoleon refused to allow any new ideas to be implemented on continental Europe.
  • Since the Middle Ages, Great Britain was the leader of innovations and ideas.
  • They had raw materials, like cotton, wool, and flax, readily available from their colonies.

Question 9

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How did the following developments of the Agricultural Revolution affect people? • Enclosure movement • Crop rotation • Advanced agricultural technology
Answer
  • They decreased the amount of food each individual farmer could produce
  • They drove up the price of crops because there were less crops available for people to buy
  • Encouraged more people to become farmers because they could earn more money doing less work
  • Forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or move to the cities

Question 10

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The Industrial Revolution impacted rural-to-urban migration by…
Answer
  • Causing people to give up farming and search for jobs in cities
  • Forcing people to migrate to new countries
  • Making people move closer to sources of water
  • Spreading industrialization across the European continent

Question 11

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What do the following events describe? • Wealth landowners take over land • Food production increases • Displaced farmers move to the cities What were the major causes of these changes in England?
Answer
  • The Industrial Revolution
  • The Enclosure Movement
  • The French Revolution
  • The invention of the water frame

Question 12

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Which condition is most necessary to the process of industrialization in a society?
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  • dependence on subsistence agriculture
  • capture of foreign lands
  • creation of a one-crop economy
  • availability of investment capital

Question 13

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What class did the Industrial Revolution create?
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  • The urban upper class
  • The urban working class
  • The urban middle class
  • The rural upper class

Question 14

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The women depicted in the picture was probably from the
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  • Upper urban class
  • Upper rural class
  • Middle class
  • Working class

Question 15

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What was a result of the invention of the cotton gin?
Answer
  • Slaves were no longer needed
  • The need for slaves increased
  • Farmers stopped growing cotton
  • Cotton production decreased
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