European Industrialization

What was James Watt’s contribution to industrialization in England?

• A. He invented a more efficient steam engine.

• He invented Cheese curls

• He invented a less expensive way to manufacture steel

• He invented the method of using interchangeable parts.

One reason why Great Britain became the first nation to industrialize was that it had

• a high population density.

• Stable Government and Natural Rights

• an empire that could supply it with coal.

The textile industry was the first industry to be transformed by mechanization because

• a larger percentage of people worked in the textile industry than in any other.

• England was positioned to monopolize the cloth trade with its colonies and geography location

• textiles were the most profitable manufactured commodities.

• globalization created a large surplus of raw cotton

What invention made the expansion of the steel industry in the American Midwest possible?

• interchangeable parts

• Labor and capital

• the internal combustion engine

• the iron ore inductor

• the location of the midwest between raw materials and transportation

The invention of machine tools that could create part after part of the same size and shape allowed for the use of

• highly skilled employees.

• interlocking joints

• more efficient power looms.

• interchangeable parts.

What European nation became a leader in heavy manufacturing and the chemical, electrical equipment, and weapons industries by the late 1800s?

• France

• Russia

• India

• Germany

What prompted Japan to begin industrializing in the late 1800s?

• Japan feared they were falling behind their neighbor China. manufacturing.

• Japan's ties with Britain gave them an advantage in textile manufacturing

• The new Meiji government pursued a course of modernization.

• The shogun saw an opportunity to sell manufactured good throughout Asia

The growth of the domestic system marked

• a movement away from the factory system.

• an increase in the barter economy

• a shift toward a new form of production.

• an increase in the barter economy

Which of the following was a factor which allowed for the development of mass production?

• the creation of more sophisticated advertising strategies

• the use of chemical fertilizers and mechanized reapers and harvesters

• the specialization of workers in a single step of the manufacturing process

• the creation of vertical monopolies across a single industry

How did a few large companies come to dominate industrial economies by the late 1800s?

• by buying smaller companies or driving them out of business

• by creating partnerships with national banks

• by establishing multinational corporations throughout the globe

• by lobbying national governments for favorable legislation