WH Unit 7 Test: The Industrial Revolution (1750-1914)

Which is true of life BEFORE the Industrial Revolution?

• Most of the work was done by human & animal muscle.

• Cars were very crude, and most were powered by steam.

• People were often nomadic, traveling from village to village for new jobs when they were available.

• Typically, people did not have many health issues, and very few women died in childbirth.

_______ farmers combined fields, used animal feces for fertilizer, and expanded their farmland by building dikes & draining swamplands.

• Dutch

• English

• American

• Arab

_______ farmers rotated crops, grew turnips, experimented with new soil combinations, and benefitted from Jethro Tull's new invention, the seed drill.

• Dutch

• British

• American

• North Korean

The process of taking over and consolidating or combining lands formerly shared by peasant farmers.

• Enclosure

• Joint Stock Land Ventures

• Reunification

• Crop Rotation

What happened as a result of better farming, hygiene, sanitation, health care, and more food in the Industrial Period.

• People became morbidly obese and did not live as long.

• Life expectancy & population decreased.

• Life expectancy & population increased.

• More people left the city to move to the country for work & food.

The first textile factories were powered by water, but what invention by Thomas Newcomen allowed factories to move away from rivers?

• The internal combustion engine.

• The steam engine.

• The spinning jenny.

• The sheep sheer

The process of separating iron from its ore.

• The Bessemer Process

• Smelting

• Spinning

• Boilermaking

What are the four factors of production?

• Natural Resources, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurs

• Coal, Steel, Money, and Power

• Tenacity, Money, Shipping, Natural Resources

• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Power

Because of its access to the four factors of production, _____ got a head start on the Industrial Revolution & was the early leader.

• The U.S.

• Germany

• Britain

• Russia

____ + capital to produce supply + technology to produce it = favorable climate to make money.

• Resources

• Money

• Demand

• Wool