Unit 7 Study Guide: Industrialize Revolution

Agriculture Improvements, increased population, available natural resources, markets to sell products: BEST DESCRIBE?

• Solutions to Social Problems

• Changes in Business Practices

• Conditions Needed to Industrialize

What advancement allowed steel to be mass-produced?

• interchangeable parts

• the Bessemer process

• the steam engine

How were coal and steam power connected? (two correct answers.)

• Steam-powered pumps were used in coal mining.

• Steam power was used to produce coke from raw coal.

• Coal was burned to power steam engines.

• Most steam engines were made from material extracted from coal.

During Industrial Revolution the increasing number of job opportunities in banking, factory management, & shopkeeping caused which?

• migration of workers to other countries

• overcrowding in cities

• growth of the middle class

Which effect of the Industrial Revolution came from the use of assembly lines?

• faster transportation

• decreased importance of skilled labor

• longer work shifts

What was the main reason for working-class people’s migration to cities during the Industrial Revolution?

• to find jobs

• to purchase homes

• to get an education

What effect did urbanization have on mothers taking care of children?

• Mothers relied more on members of the community for childcare.

• Mothers delayed taking jobs til children old enough to care for themselves.

• Mothers gained flexibility in work, helping them work jobs & tend children.

What did Gregor Mendel discover from his experiments with pea plants?

• Peas return important nutrients to soil.

• Peas with harder outer casings are less likely to be eaten by animals.

• Parent peas pass on their traits to their offspring.

What did Karl Marx believe workers needed to gain to have an equal society?

• the same privileges as the bourgeoisie

• control over the means of production

• representation in government

• What economic system consists of: private ownership, profit motive, competition, & consumer sovereignty?

• free market capitalism

• utilitarianism

• utopian socialism