Industrial Rev test
How did class-consciousness form during the Industrial Revolution?
As modern industry created conflict between industrialists and laborers, individuals believed classes existed and developed a sense of class feeling
Which law outlawed labor unions and strikes in Britain?
Combination Acts of 1799
which economic thinker would most likely to support factory act
Karl Marx
What was the core concept of Social Darwinism?
The human race was driven by an unending economic struggle that would determine the survival of the fittest
Which of the following economic thinkers would most likely agree with Bentham's argument
Adam Smith
What was the key demand of the Chartist movement?
All men must be given the right to vote.
Who were the Luddites?
British handicraft workers who attacked factories and destroyed machinery they believed were putting them out of work
Edward Jenner recurved financial promises from British government for
Discovering that cowpox could be used to vaccinate against smallpox
Bentham's arguments concerning personal liberty reflect most closely the principles of the
Enlightenment
Utiliarianism
Greatest good for the greatest number of people
Which of the following is credited with development of social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
Bentham's argument best explained
Increasing use of credit for complex financial transactions
The major breakthrough in energy and power supplies that catalyzed the Industrial Revolution was
James Watt development of the steam engine between 1760's-1780s
How did railroads affect the nature of production?
Markets become broader, encouraging manufacturers to create larger factories with more sophisticated machines.
Essay on principle of population argued that
Populations tends to increase beyond means of subsistence
The image demonstrates which economic development in early modern Europe?
The development of the market economy
Which of the following best explains David Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages?
The pressure of population growth would always sink wages to subsistence levels.
What did the Mines Act of 1842 prohibit?
Underground work for all women and girls as well as boys under ten
British Parliament passed the factory act of 1833 primarily in result to
abuses in factories against employees
in 19th century, List believed industrial development should be pursued
as part of a project of economic nationalism led by the state
which is another result of industrial rev that is NOT mentioned in the above excerpt
class identity developed and was reinforced among both the middle and working classes during 19th century
which artist benefitted by participating in salon de refuses
claude monet
key development in 18th century allowed continental banks to shed their earlier conservative nature
establishment of limited liability investment
which of the 19th century ideologies would have been most likely to support Factory Act of 1833
liberalism
Industrial rev was result of
poor families choosing to reduce leisure time and production of goods for household consumption in order to earn wages to buy consumer goods
which explains movement of women into teaching?
seen as increasingly respectable occupation for women
painter of the river
silsey
How did expansion of Industrial Revolution affect the middle class?
Middle class established a range of new professions which required specialized knowledge and advanced education
Conventional view of pre-industrial economics as incapable of sustained economic growth was in part informed by which?
before mid 18th cent, European population was subject to Malthusian crisis
which of the following supports de Vires argument
before the advent of steam engine, a dense network of canals and roads had been built in Britain in response to growing commercialization of agriculture and manufacturing
historian would use passage as evidence for
economic conditions of educated middle and upper class women
In subsequent years, the conditions that provoked passage of the Factory Act of 1833 led to which of the following?
growth of labor unions
At the center of Adam Smith's arguments in "The Wealth of Nations" was the belief that
pursuit of self interest in competitive markets would improve living conditions of citizens
What caused the revolutionary reduction in the size of European Families?
the family's desire to improve its economic and social position
The image demonstrates which regarding growth of textile industry?
cottage industry
which long-term trend emerged from work in the above image?
factory system
How did labor in British families change in the eighteenth century?
family members shift labor away from unpaid work for household consumption and towards work for wages
compared w/ a historian espousing the more traditional view of Industrial Rev as a truly transformative event, de Vires would most likely to emphasize importance of all except
greater ability of inventors to profit from their inventions due to govt support
which of the following characteristics of the Industrial Rev would support the argument made by the author in the excerpt above?
By the end of the 19th cent wages and quality of life improved for working class
How did the cotton transform textile industry?
Cotton could be spun mechanically with much greater efficiency than wool or flax, helping to solve the shortage of thread for textile production.
How did the origins of industrialists change as the Industrial Revolution progressed?
It became harder to form new firms, and instead industrialists were increasingly likely to have inherited their wealth.
Advocates for agricultural innovation argued that
Landholdings and common lands needed to be consolidated and enclosed in order for farm to work more efficiently
What was the effect of the Factory Act of 1833
Limited work of children
Bentham's argument exemplifies which of the following processes at work in eighteenth century Europe?
The loosening of traditional moral restrictions on economic activity
