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Industrialization Revolution Summative

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Farmers begain to implement which of the following to keep them from exhausting soil nutrients?

a)

seed scattering

b)

crop rotation

c)

skipping a year of crops

d)

none of these

2.

Which of the following is NOT a reason the Industrial Revolution began in England?

a)

It had harbors from which merchant ships could not sail.

b)

It had large forests to obtain the fuel for steam engines

c)

Natural Resource

d)

None of these

3.

Matthew Boulton was a businessman who helped organize, manage, and take on the financial risk of creating James Watt's new steam engine. This made Boulton a(n)___________

a)

entrepreneur

b)

mill boss

c)

factor owner

d)

none of these

4.

According to an 1842 study, what was the average life span of a British working class person living in slums?

a)

17 years

b)

38 years

c)

25 years

d)

100 years

5.

A factory owner would be a part of which social class?

a)

Lower class

b)

upper middle class

c)

Scogins class

d)

Lamberts class

6.

Which would be considered a positive effect industrialization had on social classes?

a)

Middle class children engaged in educational and leisure activities

b)

Factory workers were overworked and underpaid

c)

Children made money and worked long hours

d)

There was no positive effect

7.

Which is BEST explanation for why children were often employed in the British mining and factory work?

a)

They were less likely to be members of a union

b)

They could be paid less than adult male workers

c)

They worked harder than adults

d)

Because there was an abundance of children

8.

Which three were positive effects? Pick 3 answer

a)

overcrowded urban centers

b)

improvements in transportation

c)

increase in wages

d)

Increase in Child Labor

e)

Greater social mobility

9.

What were the 3 negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. Pick 3 answer.

a)

Increase in wages

b)

increase in child labor

c)

contaminated water supplies

d)

greater social mobility

e)

Overcrowded urban centers

10.

Why was the United States able to industrialize successfully?

a)

There was not enough suitable land for everyone to become farmers

b)

The U.S. had the natural and labor resources needed for industrialization

c)

Because the U.S. always has to be the best country

d)

None of these

11.

According to capitalism, which of the following would be considered a "good" government?

a)

one that the government interferes with businesses as little as possible

b)

one that allows the government to regulate all business activities

c)

One that does not regulate business activities at all

d)

none of these

12.

One average, how much pay did a woman receive compared to a man doing the same job working the same hours?

a)

1/2

b)

1/3

c)

1/4

d)

1/8

13.

How did the Industrial Revolution change the lives of middle-class British women?

a)

They began to recieve the same wages as men

b)

They began to attend college to train for careers as teachers

c)

They started working in factors with the lower class

d)

None of these

14.

Which of the following conditions during the Industrial Revolution supported Karl Marx's ideas?

a)

There were few wealthy business people while the majority of people were poor.

b)

More materials goods were available for everyone to purchase

c)

There too many wealthy people and not enough poor people

d)

none of these

15.

Business Owned by individuals, Competition determines price, Business should not be regulated is which of the following?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Communism

c)

Socialism

16.

Society has no class distinctions, Government owns business, Wealth equally distributed falls under which one?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Communism

c)

Capitalism

17.

Laws should protect workers rights is which of the following?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Communism

c)

Socialism

18.

An economic concept that refers to separating task in which people in a factory or company work at one kind of job and learn to do it well

a)

specialization

b)

laissez faire

c)

urbanization

19.

laborers who were part of the lower class who saw their livelihoods disappear during the industrial revolution as machines replaced them in factories

a)

working class

b)

middle class

c)

laissez faire

20.

University of Glasgow, Scotland professor who defended the ideas of a free economy in his book The Wealth of Nations

a)

Karl Marx

b)

Adam Smith

c)

James Watt

21.

mathematical instrument maker who figured out a way to improve the steam engine by making it work faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel

a)

James Watt

b)

Karl Marx

c)

Adam Smith

22.

The growth of cities and the migration of people into them

a)

industrialization

b)

urbanization

c)

laisses faire

23.

a social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers

a)

middle class

b)

specialization

c)

laissses faire

24.

the development of industries for the machine production of goods

a)

industrialization

b)

urbanization

c)

specialization

25.

a British milll woker who emigrated to the United States, bringing plans for British spinning machines with him

a)

Karl Marx

b)

James Watt

c)

Samuel Slater

26.

the idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries and business

a)

urbanization

b)

specialization

c)

laisses faire

27.

A German journalist who co-authored the communist manifesto, sharing ideas of a radical form of socialism that bears his name

a)

Karl Marx

b)

Adam Smith

c)

Samuel Slater

28.

The three factors of production _____​ ,______ and___ __​

a)

land, labor, capital

b)

labor, manager, electricty

c)

land, money, government

29.

According to the quote from Andrew Carnegie which of the following economic theories would he support the most?

"one great advantage which America will have in competing in the markets of the world is that her manufactures will have the best home market. Upon this they can depend for a return upon capital, and the surplus product can be exported with advantage, even when the prices received for it do no more than cover actual cost, provided the exports be charged with. their proportion of all expenses. The nation that has the best home market, especially if products are standardized, as ours are can soon outsell the foreign producer."

a)

capitalism

b)

socialism

c)

utopianism

d)

communism

30.

According to the quote from Friedrich Engles who are the working class at odds with in their daily life?

"Nobody troubles about the poor as they struggle helplessly in the whirlpool of modern industrial life. The working man may be lucky enough to find employment, if by his labor he can enrich some member of the middle classes. But his wages are so low that they hardly keep body and soul together. If he cannon find work, he can steal, unless he is afraid of the police; or he can go hungry and then the police will see to it that he will die of hunger in such a way as not to distrub the equanimity of the middle classes"

a)

the police

b)

themselves

c)

the middle class

d)

other working men

31.

In this image what is the delusion the mother is holding on to?

a)

better wages

b)

the right to vote

c)

her child

d)

none of these

32.

Which family responsibility is this cartoon saying the mother is neglecting by hugging the ballot in the rocking chair?

a)

supporting her husband

b)

taking care of her baby

c)

Her chores

d)

none