First Industrial Revolution Quiz (TIME)

The Enclosure Movement was the process of ___________ taking over and fencing off land formerly shared by peasant farmers.

• The Mongols

• factory workers

• King Louis XVI

• rich landowners

Farm output and profits increased because large fields required ___________ workers.

• more

• fewer

Jobless farm workers migrated to

• Versailles, France

• towns and cities

• countryside

• Rome

The huge number of people moving into the city during this time is called

• Promised Land

• Capitalist Economy

• textile industry

• Great Migration

What was one of the major uses of high-quality iron & steel?

• Airplanes

• Navy ships

• Railroads

• Hand tools

The flying shuttle and spinning jenny were technological advances in

• transportation

• textile industry

• Military

• steam-power industry

Two new types of transportation developed around 1900 were

• automobiles and steam ships

• locomotives and airplanes

• trains and steam ships

• automobiles and airplanes

Which type of economy has private property, individual choice, profit, and no government involvement?

• Capitalist

• Communist

• Mercantilist

• Socialist

What effect did new machine technology have on the putting-out system?

• It made the putting-out system more economical.   

• It ended the putting-out system.

• It resulted in more employees being hired to work        in the system.

• It caused more workplace injuries.

In transportation, steam power was used to operate

• toll bridges

• canal boats

• locomotives

• spinning jenny