Industrial Revolution Quiz

Which was NOT a reason the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain?

• Britain had important natural resources like coal and iron.

• Britain was connected by land to the rest of Europe.

• Britain was one of the first countries to use railways.

• Britain had many colonies that supplied raw materials.

The movement of a large percentage of the population from small towns and villages to cities was called:

• Urbanization

• Domestication

• Laissez-faire capitalism

• Socialism

Which of the following descriptions best applies to urban (city) life during the Industrial Revolution?

• Governments tried to help consumers and to keep food production safe.

• People lived in large apartments with plenty of space.

• Pollution and crowded living conditions led to disease.

• Toilets and clean water were available to most people.

During most of the Industrial Revolution, women and children:

• Could not work in factories.

• Were paid much less than men.

• Went to school and learned a trade

• Could only work four hours a day

Using the chart above, at what age did most people start working in cotton factories?

• Under age 10

• 10-13

• 14-17

• 18-20

An economic system in which businesses and factories are privately owned and operated and trying to make a profit is called:

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Romanticism

Karl Marx believed that the proletariat (working class) would eventually:

• leave Europe for the United States

• try to serve in Parliament

• rise up and overthrow the capitalists in a violent revolution

• become wealthy entrepreneurs

Who was the economist who wrote the “Wealth of Nations” and believed in a free economy?

• Adam Smith

• John Calvin

• Karl Marx

• James Watt

The cartoon above represents the division of Africa by European leaders at the:

• Congress of Vienna

• Yalta Conference

• Africa Summit

• Berlin Conference

This stanza from Kipling’s poem is associated with the belief that it was the duty of Western colonial powers to:

• learn from the people they conquered

• teach their colonies how to produce manufactured goods

• “civilize” the people they controlled

• welcome less developed countries as equals