H3 QUIZ 7 FALL 2020

Which geographic feature aided industrialization in Great Britain?

• good harbors

• highland climate

• large forests

• monsoon winds

• Abundant coal resources

• Development of steam power

• Building of an extensive canal system

In the late 1700s, these conditions allowed the Industrial Revolution to begin in

• Japan

• Russia

• Germany

• England

In what British industry did the Industrial Revolution first take hold?

• textiles

• agriculture

• iron production

• transportation

Which statement best describes a major reason that the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain?

• Sufficient coal and iron ore reserves and a good transportation system were available.

• A strong union movement was able to secure good working conditions and high wages for factory workers.

• Industries were owned by the national government.

• Cities could easily accommodate the migration of people from rural to urban areas.

Base your answer on the passage and on your knowledge of social studies.

"It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill smelling dye. . . ."

– Charles Dickens, Hard Times

Which problem is the subject of this passage?

• economic inequality

• lack of child labor laws

• urban pollution

• poor transportation systems

Transportation in the 1800s was revolutionized by the development of the

• caravel

• airplane

• caravel

• steam engine

Base your answer to the question on the speakers' statements and on your knowledge of social studies.

Speaker A: Government should not interfere in relations between workers and business owners.

Speaker B: The workers will rise up and overthrow the privileged class.

Speaker C: Private property will cease to exist. The people will own the means of production.

Speaker D: A favorable balance of trade should be maintained by the use of tariffs.

Which speaker is referring to laissez-faire capitalism?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Base your answer to the question on the speakers' statements and on your knowledge of social studies.

Speaker A: Government should not interfere in relations between workers and business owners.

Speaker B: The workers will rise up and overthrow the privileged class.

Speaker C: Private property will cease to exist. The people will own the means of production.

Speaker D: A favorable balance of trade should be maintained by the use of tariffs.

Which two speakers represent Karl Marx's ideas of communism?

• A and B

• B and C

• B and D

• C and D

"I don't know how old I am. . . . I began to work when I was about 9. I first worked for a man who used to hit me with a belt. . . . I used to sleep in the pits that had no more coal in them; I used to eat whatever I could get; I ate for a long time the candles that I found in the pits. . . ."

– E. Royston Pike adapted from Hard Times, Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution

What was one thing that happened in response to the conditions described in this passage?

• Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto

• Garibaldi organized the Red Shirts

• Charles Darwin developed The Origin of the Species

• Atatürk joined the Young Turks

According to Karl Marx, the course of history is determined by

• religious wars

• nationalistic uprisings

• economic class struggle

• political domination