AP EURO : Industrial Revolution

Historians generally agree that the Industrial Revolution began

• before 1700

• between 1700 and 1750

• sometime after 1750

• shortly after 1800

• shortly before 1850

Britain's emergence as a first industrial power was aided by all of the following EXCEPT

• a rapid population growth and a surplus pool of labor

• the agricultural revolution of the eighteenth century

• a ready supply of domestic and colonial markets

• Parliament's heavy and controlling involvement in private enterprise

• a developed financial system

The Industrial Revolution in Britain was largely inspired by

• The urgent need to solve the great poverty in the eighteenth century

• the failure of the cottage industry

• entrepreneurs who sought and accepted the new profitable manufacturing methods

• the industrialization of the Dutch and French

• the economic and technological needs engendered by the French Revolution

The infrastructure advantages in Britain promoting rapid industrialization included all of the following EXCEPT

• canals

• roads

• bridges

• internal customs posts

• railroads

The water frame spinning machine was invented by

• James Hargreaves.

• James Watts.

• Benjamin Franklin.

• Richard Arkwright.

• Matthew Boulton.

Britain's cotton industry in the late eighteenth century

• could not keep up with French textile production.

• was inspired by the textile industry found in the United States

• declined due to the lack of technical innovation.

• immediately declined with the success of the Industrial Revolution.

• was responsible for the creation of the first modern factories

James Watt was vital to the Industrial Revolution for his invention of

• the spinning jenny.

• the mule-powered Newcomen engine

• a rotary engine that could spin and weave cotton.

• the first steam-powered locomotive.

• the power loom.

The development of the railroads in the Industrial Revolution was important in

• increasing British supremacy in civil and mechanical engineering.

• increasing the size of markets and the price of goods

• bringing about the demise of joint-stock companies

• defeating Napoleon.

• making London a great port city.

The new set of values established by factory owners during the Industrial Revolution

• was rejected by evangelical religions as being "unchristian."

• was basically a continuation from the cottage industry system

• was never adopted by the working class.

• relegated the worker to a life of harsh discipline and the rigors of competitive wage labor

• was inspired by the examples of Belgium and France

The rise of the industrial factory system deeply affected the lives and status of workers who now

• were often paid in kind

• no longer owned the means of economic production and could only sell their labor for a wage

• were less vulnerable to more rapid cycles of economic boom and bust

• got both good wages and many fringe benefits unknown before

• became serfs, legally tied to factories