Industrial Revolution 2022

Which statement best describes the Industrial Revolution?

• Important inventions suddenly changed life all across Europe.

• It destroyed farming and agriculture and created industry.

• There was a gradual change in the way people lived and worked.

• The method of production changed, from machines to hand tools.

What was the reason why the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?

• Britain lacked natural resources and steam power.

• Britain had falling prices and cheap transportation.

• Britain was able to grow cotton, and had a unstable government.

• Britain had plentiful natural resources and easy access to the sea.

What caused the growth of cities during the Industrial Revolution?

• Growing demand for farmers

• Unsanitary conditions

• Creation of a new middle class

• Need for factory workers

What did Karl Marx predict would be the final result of centuries of class struggle and economic competition?

• The proletariat would become a new ruling class.

• Private ownership of farms and factories would be abolished.

• Communist dictatorships would arise around the world.

• Overpopulation would result in widespread poverty.

In practice, which economic system led to the highest degree of government control over economic decisions?

• Marxism/Communism

• utopian socialism

• utilitarianism

• laissez-faire capitalism

Which value most shaped middle class home life during the later Industrial Revolution?

• laissez-faire economics

• Social Darwinism

• the cult of domesticity

• the social gospel

How did Louis Pasteur help to improve public health?

• finding a cure for tuberculosis.

• improving conditions in hospitals.

• encouraging new surgical practices.

• applying germ theory to combat disease.

Which statement best describes child labor during the early years of the Industrial Revolution?

• Child labor did not exist before the Industrial Revolution.

• Mines and text factories employed large numbers of children.

• Laws kept children from working in dangerous mines and factories.

• Most child laborers spent part of each day in school.

What was one long-term benefit of the Industrial Revolution?

• Factory work allowed women to earn as much money as men.

• Over time, poverty was eliminated in industrialized nations.

• Governments took greater control over the economy.

• In industrial countries, the overall standard of living improved.

Adam Smith defined the free market as an economic system in which:

• the market functions with little or no government interference.

• the government regulates prices to benefit all.

• workers control the means of production.

• entrepreneurs cooperate to set wages and prices.