2nd Industrial Revolution Test

The Industrial Revolution describes a time when

• people rejected socialism and began calling for capitalism.
• people began to use the scientific method to find answers to their questions.
• work done by machines in factories replaced work done by hand.
• industrialized nations created overseas colonies.

Which of the following is true of the Industrial Revolution?

• The industrial revolution helped bring an end to slavery in America.
• The industrial revolution first began in France.
• The first industry to use machines and factories was textiles.  
• By the end of the industrial revolution, most factories were powered by rivers.

Which of the following best explains the impact of railroads during the Industrial Revolution?

• Railroads were so slow and expensive that automobiles quickly replaced them.
• Railroads increased transportation costs led to a decline in factory output.
• Railroads were expensive and cost factory owners more money.
• Railroads increased the need for coal, steel, and steam engine production.

What is the central conflict identified by Marxism?

• left vs. right

• rich vs. poor

• white vs. black

• nations vs. other nations

Q.9. The denial of universal suffrage in

Europe, led to_.

• (a) Revolutions

• (b) Women and non-propertied men organising opposition movements, demanding equal rights throughout 19th and early 20th centuries

• (c) Demand of equal political rights

• (d) Return of monarchy

Who created a workable electric light bulb?

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Bessemer

• George Westinghouse

Who patented the telephone?

• Henry Bessemer

• George Pullman

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

This helped US steel production grow

• kerosene porcess

• air brakes

• Bessemer process

• West process

Period of technological development and innovation in the United States.

• Tech Boom

• Technology Age

• Second Industrail Revolutions

• Machine Revolution

The idea that certain races were fitter therefore they prospered.

• Evolutionary Privilege

• Charles Darwin

• White Priviledge

• Social Darwinism