World History Industrialization and Nationalism

1. The factory created a new labor system in which

• products were produced by animal labor
• workers had periods of hectic work, like at harvest time, and then time of inactivity
• machines did all of the work, and workers supervised
• people worked regular hours and did the same work over and over

2. The social change brought by the Industrial Revolution was evident in the

• emergence of the middle class and working class
• growing death rates across Europe
• thick air pollution that choked the British isles
• widespread famines caused by families abandoning their farms

3. The ability to produce higher quality iron helped increase industrialization because

• factory owners were willing to buy more iron
• less iron was needed when the quality was higher
• better quality iron cost less money to produce
• better machines could be built from iron

4. The textile industry in England met its last major challenge to full mechanization with the development of

• the flying shuttle
• the water powered loom
• improvements to the steam engine
• the spool

5. What was the cause of the revolutions in Belgium, Poland, and Italy in the 1830s?

• loss of the right to vote
• a wish to be more conservative
• a fear of royalty
• the desire to be independent states

6. The young entrepreneur already had started three different businesses, all of them profitable. An entrepreneur is a person who

• works hard at whatever he or she does
• figures out new businesses for making money
• has a lot of money to invest in businesses
• wants to earn a lot of money at any cost

7. The Industrial Revolution started in Britain partly because its rivers provided

• cheaper food supply
• coal and iron ore
• transportation and power
• plentiful labor

8. Why did coal production expand greatly during the Industrial Revolution?

• people preferred coal over electricity because it was more powerful
• coal was an environmentally clean method of fueling machines
• new methods of mining coal made it a safe and easy job
• coal was needed to produce iron and run steam engines

9. How did the railroads guarantee the success of the Industrial Revolution?

• goods could be moved faster from the factories to the places they would be sold
• people could travel from their homes in the countryside to the factories in the cities
• everyone enjoyed riding on the railroads
• average people could invest their savings and purchase rail lines

10. Industrialization spread rapidly in both Europe and the US thanks to

• railroads
• steamboats
• peasants
• nuclear energy