Campus Assessment Test Review

During the Industrial Revolution railroads became important in England because they

• Provided an easy way to transport goods to America.

• It allowed people in England to travel cheaply.

• They allowed English goods to reach markets in mainland Europe quickly.

• It gave businesses and factories a cheap way to move supplies and goods across England.

One of the inventions of the Industrail Revolution was the steam engine, this proved to of great importance because it

• made water travel faster with the invention of the steamboat

• made land travel because of the railroad

• provided the power for factories

• All of the above

How did the Industrial Revolution impact the lives of women and children?

• working class women and children began working in factories

• Women and children had more leisure time at home

• All the money made from factory jobs meant kids could now go to school and women could attend college

• cheap products meant women and children could stay at home while the husbands and fathers worked

The Industrial Revolution contributed to Imperialism from European powers because Europe needed cheap raw materials from the colonies.

• True

• False

What effect did the assembly line and mass production have on the markets.

• The quality of workmanship in the factories made goods more expensive

• Goods became cheaper because the sheer number of goods produced.

• everyones desire to have factory produced goods drove the prices of factory goods up

• it filled the market with goods causing factories to go bankrupt when surplus products could no longer be sold on the market

Long term effects of the Industrial Revolution included

• Child Labor laws became necessary when people realized children were being injured in the factories dues to terrible working conditions

• increased urbanization as more and more people moved to the cities to get jobs in factories

• the organization of Labor Unions and and labor laws to help protect the worker

• All of the above

Many Imperialist European governments felt justified to colonize Africa and Asia because the felt the were giving the gift of civilization to undeveloped inferior peoples.

• True

• False

The injuries and deaths of children working in factories brought about a

• need for public education

• reform movement to improve the mental health of children

• a reform movement in child labor laws

• desire to bring mothers into the factories to help the children

Which of the following is not an effect of Imperialism

• cultural diffusion of western ideas into Africa and Asia

• Colonies stripped of natural resources

• the growth of nationalism in European colonies

• African and Asian countries feeling that they owe Europe a debt of gratitude

Urbanization, changes in the transportation system, changing labor laws, the the rise of socialism all come from

• the effects of the French Revolution

• the effects of the Industrial Revolution

• the Age of Exploration

• the Commercial Revolution