Industrial Revolution Review

What was one major advantage of child labor for factory owners?

• Children were better workers than adults

• It was cheaper to pay children than adults

• Children were better workers than adults

• Children were easier to teach how to run the machines than adults

The negative impacts/effects of the Industrial Revolution could best be described as?

• Improve transportation

• Growth of the Middle Class

• New technology to help improve everyday life

• Pollution - water and air

How did workers try to fight against unfair and unsafe working conditions?

• Began making and selling things by hand again

• Organized unions to improve working conditions and pay

• Showed up for work on certain days in protest

• Boycotted the goods they did not produce

Which of the following was a change that occurred because of the Industrial Revolution?

• Goods became more expensive

• People moved from the countryside to the city

• More goods were made by hand

• The health of factory workers did not improve

In which type of country would you most likely find a Free Market Economy?

• Socialist Country

• A Communist Country

• A Traditional Country

• Capitalist Country

The switch from handmade to machine-made goods is best described as...

• Industrial Revolution

• Cottage Industries

• Imperialism

• Socialism

Determine which of the following would not be a statement or phase associated with capitalism.

• Supply and demand drive the cycle of the economy

• Privately owned businesses

• Government owned/controlled all of the banks and factories

• Competition among corporations

Life in the tenements could best be described as...

• Overcrowded, with several people living in one room

• Tenements were within walking distance of the textile mills

• Homes that were designed for comfort and luxury

• A new way of living in the city

Urbanization: ____________ Immigration: movement to a new country

• Movement of peoples across Europe

• Movement to farms

• Movement to cities

• Movement to USA

Which of the following is an element of mass production?

• Expensive production cost

• Slow production time

• Specially made parts

• Interchangeable parts