WorksheetsSocial Changes
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which development was a result of increased urbanization during the Industrial Revolution?
Decreased fertility rates
Improved sanitation
Increased pollution
Decreased mortality rates
Which development resulted in the spread of disease and increased mortality rates during the Industrial Revolution?
Increased division between social classes
Overcrowding in cities
Emigration to the United States
Development of pasteurization
Which of the following statements best describes Queen Victoria’s impact on Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution?
She created laws that granted wealthy women political equality with men.
She contributed to economic growth by strictly following laissez-faire policies.
She banned the practice of requiring poor workers to live in public workhouses.
She supported reforms that improved education and sanitation for poor families.
Which of the following statements best describes the contributions of Louis Pasteur during the Industrial Revolution?
He established that most diseases are caused by germs and developed a way to kill them.
He wrote books and essays that convinced many people to move from farms to cities.
He created a way to measure a population’s fertility and mortality rates.
He organized popular protests calling for an end to child labor in coal mines.
How did the Industrial Revolution affect the development of social classes in Great Britain?
It reduced the gap between the rich and poor classes.
It led to the decline and eventual fall of the middle class.
It divided society into a greater number of social classes.
It led many to argue that all people belong to a single class.
How did industrialization affect business owners and working-class laborers differently?
Business owners had access to clean drinking water, while laborers were forced to drink from polluted sources of water.
Business owners could be either men or women, while laborers worked in mines and factories that did not allow female workers.
Business owners made profits and benefited from new industrial technologies, while laborers were poorly paid and had limited access to new products.
Business owners were not required to pay any taxes, while laborers were taxed at high levels to pay for public projects.
Read this passage:
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river . . . fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. . . . Fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides. . . . Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.1
—Charles Dickens, Bleak House
What was a major cause of the conditions described in the passage?
The increase of women in the workforce
The increase in division between social classes
The growth of economic inequality
The spread of steam-powered factories and mills
How did capitalist beliefs influence British leaders during the early years of the Industrial Revolution?
They allowed leaders to prevent women from participating in the British political process.
They convinced leaders not to make laws addressing issues such as child labor and pollution.
They required leaders to vote against any law that might interfere with the environment.
They prevented leaders from passing laws that were unpopular among lower-class citizens.
Which statement best describes a difference between upper- and lower-class women during the Industrial Revolution?
Upper-class women often owned businesses and factories, while lower-class women were not allowed to own property.
Upper-class women helped their young children find jobs, while lower-class women refused to let their children work.
Upper-class women rarely had jobs outside the home, while lower-class women frequently held factory jobs.
Upper-class women resisted social changes and reforms, while lower-class women often served as political activists.
Which of the following pieces of data would be most helpful to a researcher who would like to study mortality rates in British cities during the Industrial Revolution?
A physical map showing the spread of railroad tracks across Great Britain during the 19th century
A list of the average salaries paid to workers at different factories in a large industrial city
A chart showing an increasing gap between the rich and poor starting in the Industrial Revolution
A set of newspaper articles listing the age of each deceased person in various British cities over several years
How did the British perception of children change over the course of the 19th century?
Adults came to view children as increasingly valuable members of the workforce.
Adults came to view children as generally useless workers in modern factories.
Adults came to view children as unfair competition preventing adults from getting jobs.
Adults came to view children as vulnerable people in need of protection.
Why were children valued as laborers in coal mines during the Industrial Revolution?
Their small bodies allowed them to pull loads of coal through small tunnels.
Their young bodies required less sleep and allowed them to work longer shifts.
Their public education provided them with training in mining techniques.
Their healthy lungs allowed them to breathe dangerous fumes in the mines.
Which of the following situations is most similar to the actions taken by supporters of social reform movements during the Industrial Revolution?
An environmentalist group demands that all countries outlaw the hunting and selling of all endangered animal species.
A business owner determines that he can make a higher profit if he hires unpaid high school interns instead of full-time workers.
A protest group argues that the government has no right to interfere with private businesses through laws and regulations.
A labor group pressures the U.S. government to pass laws requiring all factories to install advanced sprinkler systems to put out fires.
Which of these situations is most similar to the kinds of situations social reform movements hoped to prevent during the Industrial Revolution?
A business owner decides that at least half of his new employees should be able to speak a foreign language.
A company refuses to allow an employee to work over 60 hours in a week, even though the employee wants to work more.
A corporation relocates its production centers to countries where workers are paid less than their American counterparts.
A factory dumps its industrial waste into a river that serves as a source of drinking water for a nearby town.
Which of the following groups' goals is most similar to the goals of social reform movements during the Industrial Revolution?
An oil company urges Congress to remove laws that require it to install expensive safety equipment.
A community with a leaking sewage system pressures its state government to fund repairs.
An environmentalist group pressures the federal government to donate several acres of land as a national park.
A political group demands that the federal government lower taxes on businesses to help the economy grow.
