Unit Test

One change in the method of food production during the Agricultural Revolution was

• Breeding more smaller sheep

• Use of the open field system

• New technology to increase efficiency

• Even distribution of farmland to small farmers

One effect of the actions taken by wealthy landowners

• Consolidation of small farms into large ones owned by fewer farmers

• Small farmers gained power in Parliament

• Decrease in the amount of food produced on farms in England

• Wealthy landowners lost money invested in farming innovations

What role did Adam Smith believe a laissez-faire government should play in an economy?

• The government should play a role in helping businesses make money

• The government should make very few laws that affect business.

• The government should regulate businesses for safe practices.

• The government should restrict which businesses are allowed to open.

What effect would Adam Smith's ideas have in England?

• Theorists predicted the population would outgrow food supply.

• Government passed laws to prevent child labor.

• Workers unionized for better pay.

• Industrial leaders gained wealth and power.

This illustration depicts events from which time period in history?

• Victorian England

• Revolutionary France

• Meiji Japan

• Soviet Russia

Which health concern is depicted in this illustration of the Industrial Revolution?

• improved communication

• new power sources

• urban population growth

• trade union movement

What action addressed the public health concern raised in this illustration?

• improvements in water treatments

• burning herbs to purify the air

• relocation of government offices

• installation of electric lighting in poor neighborhoods

Due to the large gap between the rich and the poor during the Industrial Revolution, Karl Marx wrote...

• The Wealth of Nations

• The Bible

• The Declaration of Rights of Man

• The Communist Manifesto

The best use of this illistration for a historian

• To find out how much money mine owners saved

• To understand the conditions of child laborers experienced

• To determine why mine owners employed children

• To study the long term effects of working in mines on child labors

What is the most likely purpose of this illustration?

• to inspire social and political reform

• to record the negative effects of child labor

• to minimize the impacts of agricultural innovations

• to highlight the benefits of free market