The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain because it had a favorable combination of all of the following EXCEPT

• natural resources.

• available capital

• an absolute monarchy free of parliamentary restraints.

• a large labor force.

Because of steam-powered machinery, workers

• performed repetitive tasks.

• built an entire product.

• changed jobs regularly.

• needed to train a long time.

Which of the following was a major consequence of the development of industrial capitalism?

• the elimination of poverty.

• The development of new social classes, such as an expanded middle class and the new ‘working class.'

• the government became responsible for increasing the wealth of the nation.

• Social and political equality for women.

. . .The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarcely one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection [control] of Nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization [channeling] of rivers, whole populations conjured [brought up] out of the ground—what earlier century had even a presentiment [previous notion] that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor? . . . — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

In the passage above, these views were developed in reaction to the

• Age of Exploration

• Unification of Germany

• Congress of Vienna

• Industrial Revolution

The revolutionary outbursts in Europe in the 1830s and 1840s were sparked by attitudes of

• Romanticism

• Nationalism

• Conservatism

• Religious toleration

The population chart pictured reflects the influence of what event in Great Britain?

• Agricultural Revolution

• World War 1

• Transportation Revolution

• The Great War

The Suez Canal was important because

• it connected the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

• it was a major highway system between North and South America.

• the British wanted to dominate the trade markets of the Western Mediterranean.

• of its economic benefits through easier access to Eastern markets, and as a ‘lifeline’ to India.

Europeans were interested in West Africa especially for its

• Size

• Independance

• Raw Materials

• Rivers

What is one important reason that European nations met at the Berlin Conference?

• Otto von Bismark wanted to be the leader of Europe

• East Africa had the most resources of all of Africa

• European countries wanted to settle conflicting claims for lands in East Africa

• The African countries wanted to be colonized by the European nations

The division of Africa into the various European possessions represented in the above map was most directly a result of

• a European desire to spread Christian values

• unemployment and overcrowding in European urban centers

• economic rivalries among European industrialized nations

• attempts to maintain the balance of power among Eastern European states