WHG Ch 9 British Ind Rev

What is the primary reason people moved from rural areas to urban areas in the middle of the 19th century

• To get away from farming
• for apartment living 
• to contract cholera
• to find jobs in factories

What Resource was Great Britain plentiful that helped with new machines?

• iron and coal

• oil and plasic

• iron and oil

• rubber and iron

Great Britain was able to industrialize because it had

• Natural resources such as coal and iron
• Overseas markets that bought British goods
• A strong navy to protect shipping lanes
• All of the above

One result of the Agricultural Revolution was

• increase in food production
• decrease in the amount of food produced
• Increase in the number of farmers
• decreased population

Which of the following was NOT a way that the steam engine changed industrialization?

• It made production faster
• Factories didn’t need to be by streams
• It caused an increase demand for coal
• It encouraged cottage industry

The factory created a new labor system in which

• workers required skill and received high wages
• Workers had to work regular and long hours, and perform repetitive tasks for low wages
• Workers welfare was highly valued
• Workers had to adjust to periods of hectic work followed by idle periods

Why did coal production expand greatly during the Industrial Revolution?

• People preferred to use coal over electricity
• Coal was an environmentally clean fuel
• New methods of mining coal made it a very easy job
• Coal was needed to produce iron and to run steam engines

The social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution was seen in the

• Emergence of the middle class and the working class
• Famines caused by families abandoning their farms
• Cloud of air pollution that choked the British Isles
• Growing death rates from accidents on the roads

The harsh working conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to

• The Iron Workers’ Revolt of 1886
• The organization of charitable groups
• A movement toward socialism
• Government oversight of factories

Prior to the first British Industrial Revolution, what industry dominated Britain?

• Cottage industry
• Sulfur Industry
• Pottery Industry
• Mining Industry