Industrial Revolution

Which item best completes the chart? 

 

 

• A. development of railroad systems

• B. electric-powered assembly lines

• C. invention of the automobile 

• D. the light bulb

The image best depicts which effect of the Industrial Revolution?

 

3. 

• A. child labor 

• B. colonialism

• C. urbanization 

• D. increased wealth 

The graph illustrates which effect of the industrial revolution?

• A. Increased productivity due to mechanization. 

• B. Poor conditions that workers faced in coal mines.

• C. The expansion of colonialism into India and other nations.

• D. Unequal wealth distribution among workers and managers.

Which statement completes the chart? 

 

• A. Workers control the means of production.

• B. The government creates a utopian society. 

• C. The government does not interfere with free markets. 

• D. Employers must obey rules such as the eight-hour workday.

How did devices such as the Spinning Jenny affect Britain’s economy? 

 

• A. The device powered steam engines and early railroads.

• B. Britain was able to industrialize the textile industry before many countries.

• C. Rapid production of cotton caused prices to fall and an economic recession in Britain. 

• D. The Spinning Jenny helped Britain build powerful weapons that they used to colonize smaller nations.

What was one effect of the industrial revolution in the United States?

• A. higher wages for agricultural workers 

• B. the labor movement organizing against child labor 

• C. improved working conditions in factories and mines 

• D. a decrease in coal production following the invention of the steam engine 

Which development is an example of a Meiji era reform?

• A. the establishment of a constitutional government

• B. the abdication of Japan’s emperor 

• C. the abolishment of child labor 

• D. universal voting rights

He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise [the right to vote], thereby 

leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides. 

He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. 

He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns. 

Excerpt from The Declaration of Sentiments – Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

What British and American reform movements were related to this document?

• A. the labor movement 

• B. the abolitionist movement 

• C. the expansion of women’s rights 

• D. the expansion of immigrants’ rights 

It is the highest impertinence and presumption… in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense… Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776 

The author of the passage would MOST likely agree with which economic philosophy?

• A. capitalism 

• B. communism 

• C. mercantilism 

• D. socialism 

Why did the Industrial Revolution lead to an expansion of European colonialism in Africa in the late 1800s? 

• A. European countries competed for control over the slave trade. 

• B. European countries competed for control of an overabundance of natural resources.

• C. India and China refused to allow European powers to trade with Africa.

• D. India and China gained control of large regions in Africa at the Berlin Conference.