Modern World History Semester 1 Review-Supplement

Great Britain was able to industrialize because it had

• Natural resources such as coal and iron
• Overseas markets that bought British goods
• A strong navy to protect shipping lanes
• All of the above

One result of the Agricultural Revolution was

• increase in food production
• decrease in the amount of food produced
• Increase in the number of farmers
• decreased population

The factory created a new labor system in which

• workers required skill and received high wages
• Workers had to work regular and long hours, and perform repetitive tasks for low wages
• Workers welfare was highly valued
• Workers had to adjust to periods of hectic work followed by idle periods

The growth of cities is called?

• urbanization
• ruralization
• decentralization
• capitalism

The social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution was seen in the

• Emergence of the middle class and the working class
• Famines caused by families abandoning their farms
• Cloud of air pollution that choked the British Isles
• Growing death rates from accidents on the roads

The agricultural revolution led to Britain’s industrialization (mass production) because…

• It created new inventions that could be used for urban industrialization

• It greatly increased the number of people working in agricultural fields

• It encouraged the fair and equal treatment of workers on farms and in factories

• It destroyed the cottage industry and made people look for work to work in factories

An extension of a nation's power over other lands

• Cottage Industry

• Imperialism

• Industrial Capitalism

• Entrepreneur

Areas in which foreign powers have been granted exclusive rights and privilege such as trading rights and mining privilages.

• Spheres of Influnces

• Extraterritoriality

• Emancipation

• Entrepreneur

This machine allowed factories to be built anywhere, powered by coal.

• flying shuttle
• steam engine
• spinning jenny
• cotton gin

Imperialism is __________.

• when a powerful nation uses its resources to help a weaker nation
• when a weaker nation invites a powerful nation to help it industrialize
• when a powerful nation takes control of the economy and government of a weaker nation