Industrial Revolution

Which geographic feature most aided England during the Industrial Revolution?

• desert climate

• natural harbors

• mountainous terrain

• monsoon winds

“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 illsmelling dye. . . .”

— Charles Dickens, Hard Times

2. Which problem is the subject of this passage?

• economic inequality

• urban pollution

• lack of child labor laws

• poor transportation systems

3. A key idea in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is that workers should support the

• overthrow of the capitalist system

• establishment of labor unions

• legislative regulation of wages and working conditions

• technological changes in production methods

4. In the early 18th century, the Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain resulted in urbanization because

• wealthy land owners moved to cities

• people hope to find agricultural jobs there

• factory work strengthened extended families

• displaced rural workers migrated to find jobs

Base your answers to questions 5 and 6 on the speakers below.

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

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

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

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

5. Which speaker is referring to laissez-faire capitalism?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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

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

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

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

6. Which speakers represent Karl Marx's ideas of communism?

• A & B

• B & C

• B & D

• C & D

The economic shift from farming to factories is called

A ____________ is a new way of doing things

_________ is the movement of people into cities, usually for jobs.

______________ believed that workers needed to stage a revolution in order to overthrow capitalism.