Industrial Revolution Quiz

What is the Industrial Revolution?

• The process in which manual labor was used because it was easier

• The change from the use of machines to manual labor

• The process in which manual labor was used instead of machines

• The change from the use of manual labor to machines

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• Jamaica

• Britain

• United States

• Iceland

Select the causes of the Industrial Revolution

• The Agrarian Revolution

• Rise of Laissez-faire capitalism

• Impact of European imperialism

• Ice mining in Britain

What does laissez-faire mean?

• The government should leave them alone and allow them to carry out their own economic affairs

• The government needs to help them with carrying out their economic affairs

• The government should aid them with benefits for carrying out their own economic affairs

• Mercantilism should be noticed by the government

What was the European Imperialism?

• England like other European nations controlled other parts of the world through military, political, and economic control.

• The European nations controlled every part of the world through military and political control.

• Other parts of the world turned against European nations to receive military, political and economic control.

• England like other European nations tried to control all parts of the world through economic means.

Coal was a necessary ingredient for Britain, as it fueled steam engines, that were used in trains, ships, and other sorts of machinery.

• False

• True

Britain had an advantage over its European counterparts because..

• It's coal was underground

• It's coal was unused

• It's coal was always used

• It's coal was on the surface

Select all of the Impacts of the Industrial Revolution

• Introduction of Electricity in Jamaica

• The use of railway in Agriculture and transportation in Jamaica and Cuba

• The discontinuation of the industries of the Caribbean

• The use of steam ships for the exportation ofbananas and other raw materials to Europe

Each of these scientists contributed to the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT

• Louis Daguerre

• Thomas Edison

• Robert Fulton

• James Watt

Which of these conclusions can be drawn based on the Industrial Revolution?

• “Modern Research is the nucleus of today's inventions as opposed to the Industrial Revolution”.

• “The industrial revolution is the nucleus of today’s inventions as opposed to modern research”.