AP World History Units 5.3-5.5

What does the Industrial Revolution describe?

• The transition from the medieval period to the modern period.

  
  

• The transition from agrarian to industrial economies

  
  

• The transition from a religiously oriented society to a secular society.

  
  

• The transition from mercantilism to capitalism.

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? Why did it begin in this country?

What were the most essential resources of the early Industrial Revolution? Why were these resources so important?

Explain why the Industrial Revolution began.

What was the primary industry that first experienced major changes during the Industrial Revolution?

• Agriculture

• Textile

• Mining

• Transportation

Which social class grew significantly as a result of the Industrial Revolution?

• Nobility

• Middle class

• Peasantry

• Clergy

What was the main source of power for factories during the early Industrial Revolution?

• Wind

• Water

• Steam

• Electricity

In the period circa 1750–1900, the historical process illustrated by the image led directly to all of the following major global transformations EXCEPT

• The outbreak of the Atlantic revolutions and the emergence of new states in the Americas

• A significant increase in transregional trade and migration

• The transition from human- and animal-powered economies to fossil fuel-powered economies

• The increasing use of electricity in industrial and consumer applications

Unlike the four scenes in the top two rows of the lithograph, the inclusion of the two scenes in the bottom row is best explained by

• State-sponsored industrialization policies motivated by social welfare programs

• Resistance to industrialization by organized labor motivated by socialist philosophy

• The mathematical and physical discoveries of the Scientific Revolution

• The technological innovations of the second industrial revolution

Which of the following contributed directly to Great Britain’s ability to consolidate or expand its colonial control of interior regions of Asia and Africa in the late nineteenth century?

• The changes illustrated in the top two rows of the image

  
  

• The changes illustrated in the bottom two rows of the image

• The changes illustrated in the bottom row of the image only

• The changes illustrated in the middle row of the image only