Industrial Revolution Review Quizizz

One result of inventions such as Jethro Tull’s seed drill is that farmers

• were able to produce more

• needed more laborers to run their farms

• were able to charge more for their products

• had to work longer hours to plant their crops

“No observer of Manchester [England] in the 1830’s and 1840’s dwelt on its happy, well-fed people. ‘Wretched, defrauded, oppressed, crushed human nature lying and bleeding fragments all over the face of society’, wrote an American in 1845…Can we be surprised that the first generation of the laboring poor…Britain looked at the results of capitalism and found them wanting?”

-E.J. Hobsbawm

This quotation describes some of the negative effects the

• Napoleonic Wars

• Industrial Revolution

• Glorious Revolution

• Black Plague

Which conclusion is best supported by the

information on the map?

• People emigrated from Great Britain because of pollution

• Great Britain’s prosperity unified the people

• England’s natural resources led to the growth of cities

• In 1830, England had an unfavorable balance of trade

Geographical advantages, a large resources of coal, a colonial empire, communication and transportation marked

• the industrial revolution beginning in Great Britain

• the beginning of the age of imperialism in Great Britain

• the start of World War I in Britain

• the start of the French Revolution

How did the factory system change workers’ lives?

• It provided the workers with job security and retimrement benefits

• It made child care easier for the workers

• It made the workers exhausted and working under dangerous conditions

• It gave workers more free time to work on their hobbies

Laissez faire capitalism as attributed to Adam Smith called for

• little government intervention in the economy

• government intervention in major industries

• heavy taxation of manufacturers

• strict government control of the economy

Which event causes this population shift in Britain?

• Rebellions in Ireland

• The Industrial Revolution

• Emigration to the Americas

• The Bubonic Plague

Which traits characterize a laissez faire capitalist economic system?

• Slash and burn agriculture and animal powered technology

• Central planning and government set quotas on production and profits

• Profits of production are kept by factory owners

• Minimum wages and social security

What is the movement from rural areas to cities called?

• Moving

• colonization

• inflation

• urbanization

In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• The United States
• England
• France
• Germany