Unit 7 Test

A former slave, self-educated, who led a successful revolution that gained Haiti its independence from France. He was captured and died in a French prison.

• Olaudah Equiano
• Fidel Castro
• Toussaint L'Ouverture
• Simon Bolivar

Which is true of life BEFORE the Industrial Revolution?

• Most of the work was done by human & animal muscle.
• Cars were very crude, and most were powered by steam.
• People were often nomadic, traveling from village to village for new jobs when they were available.
• Typically, people did not have many health issues, and very few women died in childbirth.

_______ farmers combined fields, used animal feces for fertilizer, and expanded their farmland by building dikes & draining swamplands.

• Dutch
• English
• American
• Arab

_______ farmers rotated crops, grew turnips, experimented with new soil combinations, and benefitted from Jethro Tull's new invention, the seed drill.

• Dutch
• British
• American
• North Korean

The process of taking over and consolidating or combining lands formerly shared by peasant farmers.

• Enclosure
• Joint Stock Land Ventures
• Reunification
• Crop Rotation

What happened as a result of better farming, hygiene, sanitation, health care, and more food in the Industrial Period.

• People became morbidly obese and did not live as long.
• Life expectancy & population decreased.
• Life expectancy & population increased.
• More people left the city to move to the country for work & food.

The first textile factories were powered by water, but what invention by Thomas Newcomen allowed factories to move away from rivers?

• The internal combustion engine.
• The steam engine.
• The spinning jenny.
• The sheep sheer

The process of separating iron from its ore.

• The Bessemer Process
• Smelting
• Spinning
• Boilermaking

What are the four factors of production?

• Natural Resources, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurs
• Coal, Steel, Money, and Power
• Tenacity, Money, Shipping, Natural Resources
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Power

Because of its access to the four factors of production, _____ got a head start on the Industrial Revolution & was the early leader.

• The U.S.
• Germany
• Britain
• Russia