Industrial Revolution Review

What is a simple definition of urbanization?

• population moving to cities

• population leaving cities

• rural areas growing

• urban and rural areas growing

Factories became very efficient with the addition of the:

• assembly line

• steam engine

• division of labor

• all of these

Which of theses inventions did NOT improve communication?

• telegraph

• Morse Code

• water frame

• telephone

Industrial Revolution factory conditions were:

• regulated and safe

• dangerous

• worth the wages

• none of these

What does "laissez-faire" mean?

• let it be

• let me be

• intervene

• interrupt

If you were injured in a factory and unable to work, you were:

• given paid time off

• fired

• compensated for medical bills

• none of these

T or F: socialists are opposed to government intervention in the economy

• True

• False

Why was steam engine power better than water power?

• it was more powerful

• it was more reliable

• it was more mobile

• all of these

What was the first industry to industrialize?

• textile

• corn

• transportation

• none of these

T or F: Adam Smith wrote Communist Manifesto

• True

• False