The Industrial Revolution

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, people

• lived in small simple cottages

• made their own clothing

• ate only the food they could grow or trade

• all of the above

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, people could travel

• anywhere their heart desired

• only as far as their feet or horse drawn carriage could take them

• only to visit places they had already been to

• anywhere the train could take them

Increased agricultural production in England in the late 1700s contributed directly to

• the development of a worldwide communications network

• the introduction of manorialism

• a decrease in the power of the monarch

• an increase in life expectancy

Before a nation can begin to industrialize, that nation must first develop

• a democratic government

• a rigid class structure

• a strong religious foundation

• an adequate food supply

In the late 1700s, the Industrial Revolution developed in Britain because Britain

• possessed key factors of production

• excluded foreign investors

• suppressed the enclosure movement

• required a minimum wage be paid to workers

In England, which circumstance was a result of the other three?

• availability of labor

• abundance of coal and iron

• waterpower from many rivers

• start of the Industrial Revolution

Base your answer on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies....

"The factory owners did not have the power to compel anybody to take a factory job. They could only hire people who were ready to work for the wages offered to them. Low as these wage rates were, they were nonetheless much more than these paupers could earn in any other field open to them. It is a distortion of facts to say that the factories carried off the housewives from the nurseries and the kitchens and the children from their play. These women had nothing to cook with and [nothing] to feed their children. These children were destitute [poor] and starving. Their only refuge was the factory. It saved them, in the strict sense of the term, from death by starvation."

— Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, A Treatise on Economics, Yale University Press

• Factory owners created increased hardships.

• Factory owners preferred to use child laborers.

• The factory system allowed people to earn money.

• The factory system created new social classes.

Transportation in the 1800s was revolutionized by the development of the

• caravel

• astrolabe

• airplane

• steam engine

• Abundant coal resources

• Development of steam power

• Building of an extensive canal system

In the late 1700s, these conditions allowed the Industrial Revolution to begin in

• Japan

• Germany

• Russia

• England

A major reason the Industrial Revolution developed in Great Britain in the 1700s was because of Great Britain's

• geographic features

• immigration policies

• use of collectivization

• access to imported oil