AP Chapter 16 Quiz

The development of the steam engine was a main event powering

• the agricultural revolution.

• the industrial revolution.

• agricultural diffusion.

• none of the above.

Steam engines ultimately drove which of the following which also drove the industrial revolution?

• crop winnowing and harvesting

• textile production and railway engines

• house and tenement construction

• road and highway development

Processes of ____________ spurred demand for more goods as quantities rose and prices dropped.

• political demarcation

• supply

• mass production

• industrial relocation

Which were not factors in Britain being the center of the Industrial Revolution?

• locations near excellent transport on the Great Lakes

• the transport centers of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea

• the great European centrality of the capital of London

• availability of raw materials and Britain as already wealthy

Industrialization diffused rather slowly because

• the British jealously guarded industrial secrets and processes.

• other parts of the world wanted nothing to do with these processes.

• Britain wanted to hang on to its agricultural heritage as well.

• outside Britain, only France was to eventually industrialize.

After Britain industrialized the next in line were

• Belgium, France, and Germany.

• the U.S. and Japan.

• Russia and Poland.

• Australia and New Zealand.

Alfred Weber developed a model of plant location saying that a factory would be located

• near a port.

• near a transport break.

• at a centralized location between raw materials and the market.

• at a large city.

Manufacturing is a production chain that

• delivers finished goods to market.

• rarely exists outside of the United Kingdom

• takes raw materials and transforms them into finished products.

• binds workers in an unbearable labor environment.

The location of traditional steel plants in the United States was a result of

• automobile production in Detroit.

• trying to get newer industry away from east coast ports.

• a general westward shift in industry toward California.

• central locations between Great Lakes iron and Appalachian coal.

Many Mexican ‘maquiladora’ plants are found

• in Arizona and New Mexico.

• deep into Mexico, near Mexico City.

• in Mexico right on the border with the United States.

• in Puerto Rico.