Industrial Revolution Test Practice 2

1. For businesses, how did railroads impact the prices of goods & services?

• Made goods and services more expensive & harder to ship

• Made goods and services cheaper & easier to ship

• Gave people safer transportation

• Opened new land for exploring and settlements

These workers negotiate as a group to try and argue for better pay, better hours, and better working conditions.

• Abolitionists

• Labor Unions

• Temperance Movement

• Capitalists

How did the Industrial Revolution change the way we create goods? Choose the BEST answer

• Made fewer products

• Made more products from home

• Made better quality products

• Mass production & cheaper goods

Why did people move to cities during the Industrial Revolution?

• People were looking for work in factories

• People were looking on farms.

• People wanted to buy a house.

• People wanted to sell their crops.

This picture shows which problem of the factory system in Great Britain? Choose the BEST answer.

• Unsafe working conditions

• Unfair wages for women

• Urbanization

• Child Labor

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages

• Dangerous working conditions

• Safe working conditions

• Widespread pollution

The THREE factors of production that were vital to the Industrial Revolution and the start of any business include each of the following EXCEPT

• Land

• Capital

• Investors

• Labor

The term laissez-faire roughly translates to mean:

• Freedom

• Lazy government

• Resist

• Community

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, which item was manufactured in great numbers at newly built factories? In what industry did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• Cars

• Textiles

• Food service

• Household goods

Which of the following best describes the term industrialization? Choose the BEST answer.

• Nations began to rely on one another for trade of various goods and resources after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution

• Smaller nations needed assistance from their larger neighbors, so they formed trade alliances

• More and more people began to move to cities, away from rural areas

• Advancement in technology (machines) to produce goods on a larger scale and a reliance on manufacturing of goods instead of individuals producing goods by hand