Industrialization & Imperialism Quiz

What brought migrants from rural to urban areas like this one during the Industrial Revolution?

• job opportunities

• Religious freedom

• political freedom

• environmental safety

What environmental threat is illustrated in this image that has increased rapidly with the Industrial Revolution?

• climate change

• soil degradation

• deforestation

• air and water pollution

"And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie; in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.....Wage-labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association....What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable." - Karl Marx, 1848

Which of these BEST characterizes the beliefs of Karl Marx expressed in the quote?

• Economic competition is the only thing that has helped sustain global economies throughout human history.

• The bourgeoisie, or working class, in a socialist society will not have the same rights as the wealthy aristocracy.

• Economic equality requires some form of capitalistic system because otherwise factory workers will be treated as slaves.

• Industrialization has only strengthened the divide between social classes and will inevitably lead to social and economy revolution.

"And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie; in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.....Wage-labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association....What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."- Karl Marx, 1848

Based on the passage, which of these systems would the author MOST likely support?

• socialism

• anarchism

• capitalism

• mercantilism

In general, how did other western government leaders view Leopold’s actions in Belgium?

• as a terrible but a necessary part of creating a capitalist society

• as an acceptable method to attain economic domination in the newly-industrialized world

• as horrific and cruel, considering all western nations had outlawed slavery by this point

• as a model for asserting cultural dominance that should be copied by other imperial nations

In what country did the Industrial Revolution begin in the late-1700s?

• Spain

• France

• Great Britain

• Italy

Which of these was NOT an effect of the Industrial Revolution?

• increased organization of workers

• English settlement of the New World

• increased competition between industrialized nations

• the search for new sources of raw materials and new markets

By the end of the nineteenth century, technology in the industrial setting (factories

• generally made human labor obsolete

• raised the need for artisans and carpenters

• led to an increase in the price of American products

• created a rapidly increasing demad for unskilled or semiskilled workers

People arriving in the United States during the period known as "New Immigration" (late 19th through early 20th century), would have been most likely to come from which area of the world?

• Japan

• Italy

• Ireland

• Liberia

What group of immigrants arrived in large numbers on the U.S. west coast for the primary purpose of working on the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century?

• Chinese

• Japanese

• Mexican

• Ethiopian