World Humanities: Industrial Revolution Practice Quiz

The Industrial Revolution created a new___________ class.

• Poor

• Lower

• Middle

• Upper

The first industry to be mechanized

• pencils

• canned food

• textiles

• precision machinery

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• Prussia

• France

• Spain

• Britain

Socialism believes

• that the move to a communal society is inevitable

• that poverty will always exist

• that the means of production should be communally owned

• that land should be the measure of wealth

Invented the smallpox vaccine

• Marie Curie

• Edward Jenner

• Aristotle

• Louis Pasteur

The Enclosure Movement forced poor English peasants off their land, with many moving to cities to find work.

• False

• True

Industrialization leads to

• an increase of power in landed investors

• rapid rural population expansion

• a shift in the measure of wealth

• a demand for skilled craftsman

Capitalism is

• An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and money is invested to make profits.

• An economic system in which the means of production are owned by the public (government) and operate for the welfare of all.

All of the following are communist beliefs EXCEPT:

• need for revolution

• inevitability of capitalism's demise

• class conflict as driving force in history

• strong belief in nationalism

Invented the steam engine

• James Hargreaves

• Henry Bessemer

• James Watt

• Thomas Edison