Industrialization and Imperialism Review

All of the following were negative effects of the Industrial revolution EXCEPT

• Child Labor

• Poor Working Conditions

• Increase in Life Expectancy

• Environmental Problems

The lives of urban factory workers were quite difficult for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• They lived in crowded, unsanitary tenements.

• Diseases could spread quickly and devastate large numbers of people

• Factory work was highly repetitive and boring

• Men and women, but not their children, worked in dangerous situations.

How did the locomotive boost the economy during the Industrial Revolution?

• Building the Railroad created jobs

• Less expensive travel lowered the price of goods

• More demand meant more need for factories and machinery and hiring workers

• All of the above

In the late 1700s, these conditions allowed the Industrial Revolution to begin in

• Japan

• Russia

• Germany

• England

The economic theory of laissez faire capitalism proposes that 

• the practices of mercantilism should be expanded

• governments should not interfere with business

• command economies should provide the greatest opportunity for national growth

• the nobility should have strict control over business and industry

 Innovations from the Industrial Revolution allowed European Countries to do all of the following during Imperialism EXCEPT

• Build railroads in imperialized countries

• Use the telegraph for communication between Europe and imperialized countries

• Attempt to get the most raw materials possible to continue fueling the Industrial Revolution

• Use coal from the shore of Japan to help them Industrialize

Who would Communism have appealed the LEAST to? (Who would have been against it the most?)

• Members of a labor union with poor working conditions

• A child born into poverty in the lowest class in a growing English city

• A member of the upper middle class, or bourgeoisie

• Karl Marx, the author of the Communist Manifesto

Which of the following issues would Communists and Capitalists have agreed on during the Industrial Revolution?

• The separation of social classes is a good thing

• The wage and working conditions for factory workers was fair.

• Resources should be redistributed equally by the government owning all industries

• None of the above

Which two major ideas are contained in the writings of Karl Marx?

• survival of the fittest and natural selection 

• class struggle and revolutionary change

• separation of powers and checks and balances 

• monotheism and religious tolerance 

The political cartoon to the right is depicting what event?

• Berlin Conference

• Spheres of Influence in China

• Open Door Policy

• All of the above