Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Which of the following was the
first area to undergo major industrialization?
a. | banking | c. | coal mining | b. | railroads | d. | textile production |
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An entrepreneur is a type
of
a. | scientist | c. | business person | b. | inventor | d. | personal secretary |
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Which of the following did NOT
improve as an early result of the Industrial Revolution?
a. | factory working
conditions | c. | the average
person's diet | b. | the quality of clothing | d. | transportation |
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Which of the follwing did NOT
increase as an early result of the Industrial Revolution?
a. | urbanization | c. | the length of the average work day | b. | the size of the middle
class | d. | the life expectancy of the average
worker |
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Which of the following did NOT
improve as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
a. | living conditions for the average
worker | c. | preservation of the
environment | b. | educational opportunities | d. | affordability of consumer goods |
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Who defended the free-market
system of capitalism in the book, The Wealth of Nations?
a. | Adam
Smith | c. | Jeremy
Bentham | b. | John Stuart Mill | d. | William Wilberforce |
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What was the Industrial
Revolution?
a. | increased purchases of land by
wealthy landowners to cultivate larger fields | c. | a widespread use of teenagers as factory laborers who worked 14 hour days, 6
days a week | b. | increased output of machine-made goods that began in England during the
18th-century | d. | increased populations of urban areas
during the 1800s |
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What were the three factors of
production required to drive the industrial revolution?
a. | land, labor,
capital | c. | raw materials,
natural resources, man-made goods | b. | government, military, colonies | d. | road, railway, and water
transport |
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What was the main cause of the
process of urbanization that occurrred in 19th-century Britain and elsewhere in western
Europe?
a. | poor crop
yields | c. | improved living conditions in
cities | b. | industrialization | d. | more efficient transportation
systems |
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10.
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What is the name for the
voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?
a. | unions | c. | collective bargaining | b. | strikes | d. | utilitarianism |
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In what way did the
Agricultural Revolution pave the way for the Industrial Revolution?
a. | It led to population
growth. | c. | It caused farmers
to lose land and seek other work | b. | It increased food supplies | d. | All of the above |
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What was the impact of the
steam engine on the production of British goods?
a. | It enabled the mining industry to
work more efficiently without the need for workers | c. | It launched the railway age that brought the transportation of people and
materials to a new level. | b. | It allowed small ferries to monopolize the transport of raw materials through
English canals | d. | All of the
above |
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How did the Industrial
Revolution affect cities?
a. | It created technology to clean
them | c. | It made the population grow faster
than the housing supply | b. | It made them lose valuable sources of food | d. | It made the crime rate drop |
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Which of the following factors
MOST contributed to the shorter life span of those living in cities as opposed to those in the
country?
a. | long working
hours | c. | inadequate
housing | b. | illness caused by unhealthy living
conditions | d. | excessive
garbage |
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In what way did the new middle
class change British society?
a. | The power structure in London
shifted from the city to the country | c. | Aristocrats and wealthy landowners looked down on the middle
class | b. | The middle class became the new ruling class in
society | d. | Some members of the middle class achieved top positions in
society |
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Which of the following was a
key idea in the free-market system?
a. | protect the nation's industries
from foreign competition | c. | give government
complete control of the means of production | b. | establish minimum wages and maximum working
hours | d. | refuse to interfere in either domestic or international
economic matters |
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Which city below was not a British
industrial city>
a. | London | d. | Manchester | b. | Philadelphia | e. | Liverpool | c. | Birmingham |
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During industrialization cities were without adequate
a. | housing | c. | police protection | b. | eduction | d. | all of these |
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What was the averate working day duirng industrialization?
a. | 14 hrs day/6 days week | c. | 14 hrs day/5 days week | b. | 8 hrs day/6 days
week | d. | 9 hrs day/7 days
week |
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What did they call skilled workers, merchants, rich farmers and
professionals?
a. | the poor | c. | the Middle class | b. | the clergy | d. | the upper
classes |
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What was the name of the group that hated modern machines and tried to destroy
machinery?
a. | Capitalists | c. | Republicans | b. | Ludddites | d. | Democrats |
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What were the immediate benefits of industrialization
a. | more jobs | d. | diet | b. | education | e. | all of these we benefits of
industrializaion | c. | cheaper clothing |
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