Chapter 25: The Industrial Revolution

Which of the following was NOT true of poor urban neighborhoods?

• They were filled with overcrowded tenements.

• The living conditions were dirty and squalid.

• Most urbanites lived in factory-owned apartments.

• The incidence of diseases was increasing.

Karl Marx spelled out how he believed that workers should rise up against factory owners, outlining the basic principles of

• capitalism

• socialism

• communism

• command economies

New economic theories came about during the Industrial Revolution in response to —

• the demands of wealthy industrialists for laws to regulate economies

• the economic disparities between the wealthy and the working class

• the lack of economic power women had in industrialized societies

• the successful efforts of abolitionists to bring an end to the slavery trade

The movement of people into cities is called…

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Urbanization

• Absorption

What sparked the start of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

• The War of 1812

• The Missouri Compromise

• George Washington's Farewell Address

• The Embargo Act

Using machines to produce goods rather than humans is

• Urbanization

• Rural to urban migration

• Industrialization

• Socialism

What is the term for the shift from an agrarian society to one based on industry?

• Globalization

• Industrial Revolution

• Urbanization

• Modernization

What is the image representing?

• Missouri Compromise

• Growth of slavery in the South

• The creation of the Erie Canal

• Era of Good Feelings

Where were cities likely to develop during the early 1800s?

• Next to prominent Native American groups

• Along waterways

• Within rural communities

• At the base of a mountain

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages

• Safe working conditions

• Dangerous working conditions

• Widespread pollution