WH Industrialization & Imperialism - STUDY GUIDE

look at the chart, Which best completes the chart?

• Change their jobs

• Rising middle classes demanded greater power in government.

• Move away from cities

• Change their jobs

MAJOR INVENTIONS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Invention Year Invented

Spinning Jenny 1764

Spinning Mule 1779

Water Frame 1769

Power Loom 1785

Steam Engine 1769

Cotton Gin 1793

One important impact of the inventions identified above was

• a vast increase in mass production of manufactured goods

• high wages for factory workers

• large movement of people to rural areas

• higher prices for manufactured goods

Which of the following BEST explains the impact of railroads during the Industrial Revolution?

• Railroads were so slow and expensive that automobiles quickly replaced them
• Railroads increased the need for coal, steel, and steam engine production
• Railroads increased transportation costs led to a decline in factory output
• Railroads were expensive and cost factory owners more money

Owing to the extensive use of machinery

and to the division of labor, the work of the proletarians has lost all

individual character, and consequently, all charm for the workman.

— Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The

Communist Manifesto (1848)

What do Marx and Engels argue?

• Workers get to take a well-earned vacation

• Employers can manage their business from home

• Employers generaly meet workers' demands quickly

• That the Industrial Revolution has deprived workers of their fun, are board and suffer hardships

“…access to huge new sources of energy gave rise to an enormous increase in output of goods and services. In Britain, where the Industrial Revolution began, industrial output increased some fiftyfold between 1750 and 1900. It was a wholly unprecedented and previously unimaginable jump in the capacity of human societies to produce wealth. Lying behind it was a great acceleration in the rate of technological innovation, not simply this or that invention, but a “culture of innovation,” a widespread and almost obsessive belief that things could be endlessly improved.”

England was the leader in industry during the early years of the Industrial Revolution this "culture of innovation" was possible because of what?

• England produced more cotton and had more workers than any other country in the world

• England had lots of coal, invented the spinning jenny and other factory machines first.

• England directly bordered France, Spain, and Russia which made trade easy

• England had a socialist government which paid all workers the same wage

Which of the following describes the time period of the Industrial Revolution?

• industrialized nations created overseas colonies
• people rejected socialism and began calling for capitalism
• work done by machines in factories replaced work done by hand
• people began to use the scientific method to find answers to their questions

Which was a direct political change that resulted from the Industrial Revolution?

• to spread Christianity

• New labor unions sought political as well as economic influence.

• to modernize the cultures of Asia

• to import Asian slaves to work in western colonies

What is the cartoon about?

• Caste System

• Anti-Imperialism

• Europeans exploited colonial peoples while pretending to be helping them.

• White Man's Burden

What system operates where all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs?

• Mixed
• Socialism
• Capitalism
• Communism

I. Industrialism was spurred on by raw materials found in newly claimed African and Asian colonies.

II. Industrial weapons gave Europeans an advantage over societies in Africa and Asia.

III. Industrialism forced Europeans to search outside their borders for raw materials to meet demands.

IV.Industrialization decreased production of goods, so Europeans needed to open more markets abroad

How were industrialism and imperialism related?

• I, II, III

• III, IV

• I, II, IV

• II, IV