Unit 5: The Industrial Revolution

Based on this chart, what happened to the size of England's RURAL population?

• grew by millions of people

• shrank by millions of people

• stayed about the same

SELECT THREE causes of the Industrial Revolution.

• Agricultural Revolution

• Mechanization

• Population Explosion

• Colonialism

In which countries did the Agricultural Revolution originate?

• India and China

• England and Holland

• Russia and the United States

• Egypt and Iraq

Based on this chart, what happened to the size of England's URBAN population?

• grew by millions of people

• shrank by millions of people

• stayed about the same

This chart shows a trend toward URBANIZATION because:

• city dwellers started to outnumber country dwellers

• country dwellers started to outnumber city dwellers

• the population boomed

This is an act of Parliament from 1773.

What can be inferred from this primary source?

• the British government sided with landowners and supported Enclosure

• the British government sided with peasants and opposed Enclosure

By turning former common lands into private property, the Enclosure Movement was an early example of:

• capitalism

• socialism

• communism

Which Enlightenment thinker said that economic freedom could make society rich?

• Adam Smith

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

SELECT TWO advantages that helped Great Britain become an industrial nation:

• natural resources

• large urban workforce

• foreign aid from developed countries

• favorable climate

Which of these is an example of ENTREPRENEURSHIP?

• working in a factory

• working on a farm

• building a factory

• moving to the countryside