1750 - 1900 Industrial Revolution

The First Industrial Revolution (1780 - 1830) centered on the production of...

• Textiles

• Chemicals

• Oil

• Steel

This image is from Pendelton's catalog of women's clothing (Boston, 1820s). Which effect of the Industrial Revolution does it best illustrate?

• Working class women worked in factories and retained the domestic role

• Hand-made textiles continued to be important luxury items

• Rising importance of shopping as a part of middle class identity

• Feminist movements fought for more educational opportunities for women

This is a cartoon from Punch, a satirical magazine in England, 1852.

What was the most direct CAUSE of the situation depicted here?

• Mechanization of labor in industrial factories

• Mass migration of people from rural to urban areas

• Movements to improve living conditions for the working class

• Britain's dependence on India as a source of textiles

The mechanization of labor (using machines to make things) allowed people to produce goods...

• Of higher quality than ever before

• At all times of day

• With the help of horses, mules, etc.

• Faster, cheaper, and in greater volumes

Capitalists and socialists fundamentally disagree on...

• Whether or not industrialization is a good thing

• The role of the state in the economy

• Systems of agricultural production

• How cheap consumer goods should be

Which of the following was NOT a major effect of the Industrial Revolution?

• Massive shift of agricultural laborers to factory work

• Expansion of a new educated middle class

• Further decline in the role of inherited nobility

• Uniting family members through home-based work

Before industrialization, the vast majority of people in all societies worked as...

• Farmers

• Merchants

• Slaves

• Artisans

Which of the following was NOT a factor contributing to the birth of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain?

• Coal and iron deposits

• Constitutional monarchy

• High agricultural production

• Access to American resources

One reason China was not the birthplace of industrialization was that China did NOT have...

• Urban centers and high population

• Products other societies desired

• Rivers and canals for transport

• Motivation to get a bigger role in world trade

Under the industrial factory system, labor became...

• More centralized in one location

• Less divided up and specialized

• More demanding of skill and training

• Limited to men only