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The time of greatly increased output of machine-made goods, that began in England in the middle 1700s.
Agricultural Revolution
Telecommunication Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Imperialism
The country that saw the birth of the Industrial Revolution was ...
Great Britain
The United States of America
France
Germany
The period when English landowners began to buy large amounts of land and try innovative scientific methods in farming.
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
Telecommunication Revolution
Imperialism
Large fields surrounded by small fences.
Hives
Farming Complex
Enclosures
Acres
One of the following was NOT a result of the Agricultural Revolution ...
Farmers worked longer hours
Farmers were forced to become tenant farmers
Landowners used scientific methods in farming
Farmers travelled to industrial cities to find work
Crop rotation is ...
The process of farming more than one crop in the same land at the same time
The process of farming different crops in the same land every season
The process of allowing land to gain its nutrients by skipping farming every season.
The process of farming the same crop in the same land every season
The Seed Drill was invented by ...
Robert Bakewell
Jethro Tull
John Kay
James Watt
The Seed Drill ...
allowed farmers to harvest crops quickly
allowed farmers to use less water in irrigation
allowed farmers to sow seeds deeper in the soil
allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows
One of the following is NOT a factor of production ...
Land
Transportation
Capital
Labor
Britain was the first country to experience Industrialization because ...
It enjoyed political stability
It had plenty of workers and resources
It had many rivers and harbors for transportation
All the answers are correct
The industry that started the Industrial Revolution was ...
Textile
Locomotives
Steam Engines
Coal Mining
The Flying Shuttle was invented by ...
Thomas Edison
Jethro Tull
John Kay
James Watt
A machine that speedily carried threads of Cotton back and forth when the weaver pulled a handle is known as ...
The Spinning Jenny
The Flying Shuttle
The Spinning Mule
None of the answers is correct
The Spinning Jenny was invented by ...
John Kay
James Watt
Jethro Tull
James Hargreaves
This machine allowed one man to make eight threads at a time.
The Spinning Jenny
The Spinning Mule
The Water Frame
The Flying Shuttle
This machine used the waterpower from rapid river streams to operate spinning wheels.
The Spinning Mule
The Spinning Jenny
The Water Frame
The Flying Shuttle
The Water Frame was invented by ...
Richard Arkwright
John Kay
James Hargreaves
James Watt
This machine combined features of the spinning jenny and the water frame to produce finer, stronger, and consistent threads.
The Cotton Gin
The Spinning Mule
The Flying Shuttle
The Steam Engine
The Spinning Mule was invented by ...
James Watt
John Kay
Richard Arkwright
Samuel Crompton
This machine was able to remove seeds from raw cotton much faster than doing it manually.
The Spinning Jenny
The Cotton Gin
The Water Frame
The Flying Shuttle
The Cotton Gin was invented by ...
James Watt
James Hargreaves
Richard Arkwright
Eli Whitney
The man who invented the Steam Engine was
James Hargreaves
Richard Arkwright
James Watt
John Kay
The businessman who paid James Watt a salary and encouraged him to build Steam engines was ...
Eli Whitney
Samuel Crompton
Matthew Boulton
Richard Arkwright
A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business is known as ...
Corporate
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Business Manager
The first-ever Steamboat was called ...
Clermont
Virginia
Queen Elizabeth
None of the answers is correct
The Steamboat was invented by ...
Richard Arkwright
George Stephenson
James Watt
Robert Fulton
The British developed their water transportation by ...
inventing the steamboat
digging a network of canals
creating iron ships
occupying Suez Canal
A type of road made with a layer of large stones topped by a smoothed layer of crushed rock (Gravel) is known as ...
Highways
Autobans
Macadam roads
Asphalt roads
The macadam roads ...
allowed wagons and carts to use roads in the rain
were shorter than dirt roads
gave travelers more security from thieves
all the answers are correct
Private investors formed companies that built roads and then operated them for profit. This system was known as ...
Turnovers
Turnsilos
Turnpikes
U-Turns
The first-ever steam locomotive was invented by ...
Richard Trevithick
James Watt
George Stephenson
Eli Whitney
The world’s first railroad line was from the Yorkshire coalfields to the port of Stockton on the North Sea. this line was built by ...
Richard Trevithick
George Stephenson
James Watt
Robert Fulton
The Liverpool-Manchester Railroad used a new locomotive known as ...
Geronimo
Rocket
Rabbit
Bullet
The invention of railways ...
Gave businessmen a cheap way to transport materials and finished products
Provided thousands of jobs for miners and railway workers
Allowed people from villages to accept jobs in distant cities
all the answers are correct
City building and the movement of people to cities is known as ...
Imperialism
Industrialization
Urbanization
Civilization
Sanitary codes are ...
Systems of pipes to provide clean drinking water
Systems of pipes to get rid of human waste
Systems of underground tunnels to facilitate traffic
None of the answers is correct
The Middle-Class in Britain was formed of ...
Professionals
Skilled Workers
Factory Owners
All the answers are correct
A group of workers who destroyed weaving machines in factories of northern England to express their anger for losing their jobs to machines, and were known as ...
Pinkertons
Communists
Luddites
Anarchists
One of the following was NOT part of the working conditions during the Industrial Revolution.
Factories were dirty and dangerous
Workers worked over 16 hours a day
Women and children were not used in factories or mines
Workers were paid very low wages
The Long-Term Effect of Industrialization on the working conditions was ...
Workers earned very low wages
workers worked over 16 hours a day
workers worked in more dangerous places
workers won higher wages and better working conditions
The Long-Term Effect of Industrialization on the living conditions was ...
Housing, diet, and health eventually improved
cities lacked sanitary codes, clean water, or enough houses
workers lacked police protection in their housing areas
epidemics were all over cities
One of the following was NOT part of the living conditions during the Industrial Revolution.
People had no sanitary codes or clean water
People didn't have enough houses
Epidemics were all over cities
Education became public and free for city workers
Due to Industrialization, industrial cities of England ...
Increased in size
Had a huge increase in population
became dirty and unsafe
all of the answers are correct
During the Industrialization, the largest city in Europe was ...
Paris
London
Berlin
Rome
During the Industrialization, the 2nd largest city in Europe was ...
Paris
London
Berlin
Rome
During the Industrialization, the average life span of some cities became was ...
17 years
27 years
37 years
47 years
The most famous epidemic in the British Industrial cities was ...
The Cholera
The Bubonic Plague
The Chicken Pox
The Covid-19
One of the following was NOT part of the Upper Middle-Class.
Factory and mine owners
Skilled Workers
Merchants
Educated Professionals (Bankers, Teachers, Lawers.etc)
The first British law to restrict the age of workers and the number of working hours was ...
The First Mine Act
The First Urban Act
The First Factory Act
The First Working Act
Thousands of American single women who moved from their villages to factory towns to work in mills, and were known as ...
Weaving Birds
Weaving Girls
Mill Bees
Mill Girls
Stocks are ...
Bills to pay the debts of a business.
Laws to organize businesses.
Members of a business board.
Rights of ownership in a business.
A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not its debts is known as ...
Corporation
Complex
Association
Union
The Inflation is ...
A drop in the supply of products.
A drop in the value of money.
A drop in the demand for products.
An increase in the value of money.
The policy of extending a country’s rule over other lands is known as ...
Communism
Capitalism
Imperialism
Socialism
One of the following was NOT a factor in the Industrialization of the United States.
fast-flowing rivers for transportation
rich deposits of coal and iron ore
a supply of laborers made up of farmworkers and immigrants
a huge number of colonies for cheap resources.
Britain blockaded trade between the United States and Europe during ...
The Napoleonic wars
The Franco-Prussian War
World War I
World War II
This British man built the first spinning machine in the United States from memory.
Moses Brown
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Richard Arkwright
An American businessman who opened the first thread factory in the United States using Slater’s machines.
Moses Brown
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Richard Arkwright
An American businessman who mechanized every stage in the manufacture of cloth and built several factories in Massachusetts.
Moses Brown
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Richard Arkwright
One of the following was NOT a reason for why the Mill Girls in the United States wanted to work in mills.
Better wages
Better work than being a maid
Independence
Free Education
Before the American Civil War, the United States' economy was based on ...
Farming
Trade
Mining
Industry
One of the following was NOT an American invention.
The Light Bulb
The Cotton Gin
The Steam Engine
The Telephone
American Businessmen offered stocks to common people because ...
they needed large amounts of money to make big businesses
they wanted to boost the American economy after the Civil War
they needed to raise funds for the Civil War
they wanted to allow all Americans to be rich and gain profits
John Rockefeller was an American Businessman who founded a large corporation called ...
Standard Oil
Haliburton
American East-India Company
Carnegie Steel
Andrew Carnegie was an American Businessman who founded a large corporation called ...
Standard Oil
Haliburton
American East-India Company
Carnegie Steel
One of the following was NOT an effect of American Corporations.
Corporations reduced the costs of making products
Stockholders gained huge profits
Corporate leaders controlled the American economy
Workers earned higher wages
One of the following was NOT a reason for why Europe was late in its industrialization.
The Crusades
The French Revolution
The British Trade Blck of Europe during the Napoleonic Wars
The Inflation after the Napoleonic Wars
A British man who travelled to Belgium with secret plans for building machinery was ...
William Cockerill
John Cockerill
Moses Brown
Samuel slater
A British man who built an industrial complex in eastern Belgium to produce many machines, including steam engines and railway locomotives was ...
William Cockerill
John Cockerill
Moses Brown
Samuel slater
One of the following was NOT something that Germany did to boost its industrialization.
invited British workers and Engineers to Germany
sent German young engineers to study in Britain
occupied the rich farms in Eastern France for resources
built a huge network of railroads linking large industrial cities to coal mines
The area of Bohemia was known for ...
Spinning Industry
Cotton Processing
Silk Textiles
Coal Mining
The area of Catalonia was known for ...
Spinning Industry
Cotton Processing
Silk Textiles
Coal Mining
The area of Northern Italy was known for ...
Spinning Industry
Cotton Processing
Silk Textiles
Coal Mining
One of the following was NOT a reason for many European countries being unable to industrialize.
Low population
Social Structure that favored agriculture
Rough terrain and mountains stopped transportation
Lack of rivers and resources
This European country had a Social Structure that favoured agriculture rather than industry.
Britain
Spain
Hungary
France
This European country had rough terrain and mountains stopped transportation and stopped its industrialization.
Britain
Spain
Hungary
France
This European country had no rivers to transport goods or resources to support its industrialization.
Britain
Spain
Hungary
France
One of the following was NOT a Global impact of Industrialization.
Widened the wealth gap between industrialized and farming countries
Rise of Imperialism
Increase in dictatorships and radicalism
Development of a Middle-Class
The economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without government interference is known as ...
Marxism
Laissez-Faire Economics
Socialism
Communism
Adam Smith wrote a book about his idea of Free-Market. His book was titled ...
The Principles of Free-Market
The Communist Manifsto
The Principles of Taxation
The Wealth of Nations
One of the following is NOT one of the three natural laws of economics made by Adam Smith.
the law of self-interest
the law of fair trade
the law of competition
the law of supply and demand
According to Adam Smith, People work for their own good based on the natural economic law of ...
self-interest
competition
fair trade
supply and demand
According to Adam Smith, Competition forces people to make better products with lower prices based on the natural economic law of ...
self-interest
competition
fair trade
supply and demand
According to Adam Smith, Enough goods would be produced at the lowest possible price to meet demand in any market based on the natural economic law of ...
self-interest
competition
fair trade
supply and demand
An economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit.
Socialism
Capitalism
Communism
Utilitarianism
The idea that people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions on the basis of their utility, or usefulness.
Socialism
Capitalism
Communism
Utilitarianism
The man who argued that population tended to increase more rapidly than the food supply, thus wars and epidemics are useful to save humanity from hunger is ...
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Robert Owen
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus argued that the population tended to increase more rapidly than the food supply in an article titled ...
the Wealth of Nations
the Communist Manifesto
the Principle of Population
the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
David Ricardo argued that governments should not help the poor because a permanent underclass would always be poor in his book titled ...
the Wealth of Nations
the Communist Manifesto
the Principle of Population
the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
The founder of the economic principle of Utilitarianism is ...
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Jeremy Bentham
Carl Marx
This man favored a cooperative system of agriculture and women’s rights, including the right to vote, and believed workers should share equal profits with the business owners.
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
John Stuart Mill
Carl Marx
A British factory owner improved working conditions for his employees in his cotton mill in New Lanark, Scotland.
Robert Owen
John Stuart Mill
Jeremy Bentham
Charles Fourier
One of the following was NOT something that Robert Owen improve in his cotton mill in New Lanark, Scotland.
provided free schooling
built houses for his workers
allowed women and children to work for better wages
Rented houses for workers at low rates
French reformers such as Charles Fourier and Saint-Simon wanted to eliminate the ill effects of industrialization with a new economic system called ...
Capitalism
Utilitarianism
Socialism
Communism
An economic system where the factors of production are
owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all.
Capitalism
Utilitarianism
Socialism
Communism
Carl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote a book about their radical form of Socialism titles ...
The Communist Manifesto
The Wealth of Nations
The Principles of Population
The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
This man argued that human societies have always been divided into warring classes and that eventually the working class will revolt and seize control of all businesses.
Adam Smith
Carl Marx
David Ricardo
Robert Owen
A form of complete socialism in which all the means of production would be owned by the people, and private property would not exist.
Capitalism
Socialism
Utilitarianism
Communism
According to Marx and Engels, the Bourgeoisie are ...
The workers
The business owners
The military
None of the answers is correct
According to Marx and Engels, the proletariat are ...
The workers
The business owners
The military
None of the answers is correct
The voluntary labor associations that defend the working conditions and rights of their members are known as ...
Proletarians
Parties
Syndicates
Unions
If factory owners refused the demands of labor unions, union members could ask the workers to ...
burn the factory
destroy the machines
go on a strike
attack the owners
The British law that outlawed unions and strikes was called ...
Combination Acts
Factory Act
Mines Act
The Ten Hours Act
The British law that made it illegal to hire children under
9 years old was called ...
Combination Acts
Factory Act
Mines Act
The Ten Hours Act
The British law that prevented women and children from working underground in mines was called ...
Combination Acts
Factory Act
Mines Act
The Ten Hours Act
The British law that limited the workday to ten hours for women and children who worked in factories was called ...
Combination Acts
Factory Act
Mines Act
The Ten Hours Act
The British Parliament member who fought to end the slave trade and slavery in the British Empire was ...
Horace Mann
Alexis de Tocqueville
Jane Addams
William Wilberforce
The first person in the United States to run a settlement house for the poor was ...
Horace Mann
Alexis de Tocqueville
Jane Addams
William Wilberforce
Women activists around the world joined the women of the United States in their fight for Women's rights and founded an organization known as ...
International Council for Women
International Council for Female Power
The Women's Front
None of the answers is correct
This American thinker favored free public education for all children.
Horace Mann
Alexis de Tocqueville
Jane Addams
William Wilberforce
sought
This thinker wanted to reform prisons and emphasized the goal of providing prisoners with the means to lead to useful lives upon release.
Horace Mann
Alexis de Tocqueville
Jane Addams
William Wilberforce
