POP Quiz 02.20.23

The plaque's text depicts what important historical development during the Industrial Revolution?

• Growing support by laborers to utilize machine power over human workers.

• The need for better environmetal laws to address consequences of urbanization.

• Growing resentment amongst unemployed workers angry at the use of labor-saving mechanics.

• The need for better machines to replace poor replicas.

This evidence could best support which of the following claims?

• Most people supported the actions of the Luddites and excused their behavior without reprisal.

• The Luddites advocated for women's education so that they may become highly skilled workers.

• The Luddites used force, even violence in an attempt to attain their goals.

• Factory owners supported reform movements to provide workers with better pay and safer work environments.

Based on the table evidence, what conclusion can be made?

• Female employees were valued less than male employees and recieved significantly lower wages for the same work.

• Men were more likely to work longer hours than women whose lifestyles choices disrupted normal work habits.

• Men were hired twice as often as women to complete tedious, repetitive work.

• Children were paid the same amount as adults depending on their biological gender.

Which of the following was a social effect of hiring both men and women during the Industrial Revolution c. 1750 - 1900?

• The nuclear (traditional) family continued to be maintained with the husband working while the wife stayed home with the children.

• New class structures emerged defined by occupation, income, education, and the number of earners.

• Alcoholism and violent crime rates decreased as urban populations grew.

• Foreign-born communities no longer practiced native traditions and developed new cultures dependant on international practices.

Children employed in factories often experienced...

• opportunities to showcase their abilities and earn promotions based on merit.

• forced conversion to universal religious faiths in order to build political allegiances.

• dangerous, even deadly work environments in confined spaces or under strict rules.

• in-house training and education in a particular field, to develop expertise understanding over time.

What impact did reform movements have on child labor?

• Children could no longer work outside and had to work indoors under the supervision of an adult.

• The number of child deaths grew as reformers failed to address the need for better work environments.

• Child labor began to decline as social reformers demanded better legislation to regulate child employment.

• Child pay increased to par women and male adults.

Which of the following most directly explains the importance of improved agricultural productivity to the industrialization of economic production in western Europe in the period 1750–1900 ?

• Because the nutritional quality of food greatly improved, more people were able to sustain the long working hours that factory labor required.

• Because less labor was needed on farms, more people moved to urban areas to work in factories.

• Because farmers needed less land to produce the same amount of food, they could build textile factories on the excess land.

• Because greater quantities of food could be sold at higher prices, governments could tax farmers at higher rates and use those revenues to build factories.

The industrialization of Great Britain’s economy in the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is most directly explained by which of the following?

• Britain had large reserves of petroleum and valuable minerals.

• British scientists were the first to discover electricity.

• Britain had large reserves of coal and access to flowing water via the allocation of numerous rivers.

• British engineers developed new methods of producing cheaper steel.

Based on the image, what action did Nzinga take to prove her legitimacy to the Portuguese?

• Nzinga greeted the Portuguese with a curtsey( bow)

• Nzinga expected the Portuguese to kowtow and pay tribute

• Nzinga had her servant act as a chair to validate her authority

• Nzinga met the Portuguese at her palace

The actions taken by Nzinga and other tribal leaders symbolize what growing political movement

• The empowerment of female leaders towards feminist ideals

• To quell increasing slave resistance

• Making alliances during Tribal Revolutions

• Early Resistance against European Colonial Powers