The Modern Period Learning Checkpoint 1 Review

The French Revolution brought about social and political change by:

• establishing a constitutional monarchy

• strengthening the power of the nobility

• maintaining the status quo

• increasing the influence of the church

French revolutionaries drew upon which Enlightenment ideas?

• Liberty, equality, fraternity

• Monarchy and divine right

• Feudalism and serfdom

• Colonial expansion

How did France become a nation-state outlawing hereditary privileges?

• By signing the Treaty of Versailles

• Through the French Revolution

• By the Edict of Nantes

• Through the Industrial Revolution

Which new forms of energy helped spur the First Industrial Revolution and what did they replace?

• Steam power replaced water and wind power

• Electricity replaced steam power

• Nuclear energy replaced coal power

• Solar energy replaced oil power

What was the biggest economic change of the First Industrial Revolution?

• The rise of factories and mass production

• The decline of agriculture

• The increase in manual labor

• The growth of small businesses

Which change was the most direct result of the first Industrial Revolution?

• Increase in pollution levels

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

• Climate change

How did factories like the one shown in the Image change by the end of the nineteenth century?

• They became more automated with the introduction of machinery.

• They relied more on manual labor and less on machines.

• They decreased in size and production capacity.

• They started using renewable energy sources.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the process of industrialization first spread from the United Kingdom to which area in Europe?

• United States

• The Mediterranean

• Western Europe

• Eastern Europe

According to the graph above, which country experienced the most growth from 1834 to 1913?

• Germany

• France

• Great Britain

• Russia

What happened in Russia that may explain the changes they experienced in the graph from 1834 to 1913?

• Russia undertook state reforms in the late nineteenth century to promote industrialization.

• Marxist ideas had a growing influence on the working class in Russia.

• Economic cooperation with Europe

• Russian's population grew