Industrial Revolution Review Questions

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. …The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations, even the most barbarian, into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate [persistent] hatred of foreigners to capitulate [give in]. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In a word, it creates a world after its own image…. — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

• modifying laissez-faire practices

• opposing the spread of communism

• restricting voting rights

• reforming the landholding system

Between 1800 and 1900, which two regions saw the largest increase in the number of cities with 100,000 people or more?

• Russia and France

• Great Britain and Germany

• Italy and Spain

• Portugal and Denmark

Which statement reflects the overall effect of labor strikes as shown in this cartoon?

• Workers get to take a well-earned vacation.

• Workers are deprived of their income and suffer hardships.

• Employers can manage their businesses from home.

• Employers generally meet workers’ demands quickly.

Which of following best states a cause and effect relationship between the events identified in these documents?

• Great Britain’s many natural resources led to its early industrialization, which created great human hardship.

• Great Britain’s lack of natural resources slowed its industrialization, which created great human hardship.

• Great Britain’s many natural resources let to its early industrialization, which immediately created improved urban living conditions.

• Great Britain’s lack of natural resources slowed its industrialization, which created a migration to rural areas.

Using Document 1, which of the following best explains how geography affected the developments shown on the map.

• plentiful energy resources

• persistent arid climate

• vast oil fields

• extensive grasslands

Which impact can be inferred from this information on the Irish famine?

• Many Irish chose to emigrate to North America.

• The population in Ireland dramatically increased.

• Irish farming practices had little effect on the environment.

• The Irish government reduced the amount of farmland in Ireland.

Based on this information, what was a contributing cause of the Irish famine?

• a 50% reduction in the amount of farmland

• a shortage of farmers due to population loss

• farming methods that promoted the spread of the potato fungus

• increased use of pesticides

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. …The Irish Potato Famine left as its legacy deep and lasting feelings of bitterness and distrust toward the British. Far from being a natural disaster, many Irish were convinced that the famine was a direct outgrowth of British colonial policies. In support of this contention, they noted that during the famine’s worst years, many Anglo-Irish estates continued to export grain and livestock to England. — digital History, University of Houston Which conclusion about Irish views on the potato famine is best supported by this passage?

• The Irish potato famine resulted in several natural disasters.

• The exporting of grain overseas was the sole cause of the Irish potato famine.

• British colonial policies worsened the effects of the Irish potato famine.

• Ireland did not produce any grain and livestock during the Irish potato famine.

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. …The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarcely one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection [control] of Nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization [channeling] of rivers, whole populations conjured [brought up] out of the ground—what earlier century had even a presentiment [previous notion] that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?… — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto In this passage, Marx and Engels state that the bourgeoisie

• implemented policies of ethnocentrism

• expanded the manufacturing capacity

• was controlled by natural forces

• replaced railways with canals

This 1852 drawing most likely would have been used to argue for improvements in

• workhouse rules

• sanitation regulations

• factory conditions

• suffrage laws