Worksheetshistory exam 3
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Factories hired women and Children because they...
were quieter
were faster
worked harder
worked for less money
When accidents happened in factories, owners usually....
paid for medical bills
gave workers time off
offered nothing
made safer machines
Tenements were...
A fast type of loom
cheap apartment buildings
paymasters for factories
poorly made factories
Marconi invented the
telegraph
phonograph
radio
light bulb
In a capital system, the Means of Production is...
privately owned
publicly owner
owned by labor unios
owned by workers
According to people who are in favor of laissez-faire, government should...
stay our of business
regulate business
hire the unemployed
not be an employer
What is one result of the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century?
peasants supported the rule of napoleon
competition for colonies in north America decreased
Cities in Europe and the United States grew
the pace of scientific discoveries slowed
Negotiation between unions and employers is called...
going on strike
collective bargaining
free enterprise
socialism
Artisans or skilled workers found themselves unemployed because...
they needed different skills
machines broke down
unskilled workers worked for lower wages
households did not need their wages
Middle-class men and women...
gained their social position by luck
worked in factories running machines
were not allowed to own property
lived and dressed like the upper classes
The division of labor meant that...
skilled workers were more important than unskilled workers
profit was not important to success
Each worker was given a single task to perform
the cost of making things increased
Marx and Engel's form of socialism claimed that...
socialism could not protect workers
workers should become capitalists
people and government should share power
governments had to be overthrown by force
One of Pasteur's most Important discoveries is that...
milk can ferment
plants pass traits to their descendants
invisible bacteria cannot harm humans
germs cause sickness
Who would be most likely to support socialism?
a capitalist
a dictator
a worker
a noble
The Industrial Revolution began in...
France
The united States
Britain
Germany
How did the Enclosure Act affect British farmers?
farms became less productive
farmers learned to use steam power to harvest crops
the number of farmers increased
Many farmers lost farms and moved to cities
The spinning jenny was a technological advance in...
transportation
steam-powered generation
the textile industry
the shipping industry
In transportation, steam power was used to operate...
toll bridges
flying shuttles
canal boats
locomotives
Thomas Malthus is known for his writings about...
population and the food supply
social justice
the struggle between the classes
the iron law of wages
Two goals of communism are to...
close factories
end capitalism; create a classless society
build larger factories; grant universal suffrage
learn laissez faire economics; reduce government control
Th person who brought the Industrial Rev. to the U.S. was...
Samuel Slater
Thomas Edison
Guglielmo Marconi
Orville Wright
Factory workers formed unions in order to....
ensure a division of labor
protest low wages
stop the enclosure act
oppose capitalism
Another name for members of the working class is...
slave
serf
protetariat
capitalist
When workers refused to work, they were...
on strike
in an injunction
on a black list
in collective bargaining
List the correct chronological order of the transportation revolution
roads-railroads-canals
roads-canals-railroads
canals- railroads- roads-canals
railroads-roads-canals
