AP Euro Ch. 22 PRACTICE QUESTIONS
industrial growth first really accelerated in Britain during the
1780s
in 1860, Britain produced _____ percent of the world's output of industrial goods
20
limited the workday for children between 9 and 13 to eight hours a day
Factory Act
author of the Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engels
an early proponent of economic nationalism
Friedrich List
in the 1760s, Monday was popularly known as _____ because so many workers took the day off
Saint Monday
work that states that the British middle classes were guilty of mass murder and wholesale robbery
The Condition of theWorking Class in England
an English carpenter who built cotton-spinning equipment in Belgium
William Cockerill
_____ managed to raise per capita industrial levels in the nineteenth century
all European states
the tendency to hire family units in the early factories was a)originally a government-sponsored response to urbanization b)usually a response to the wishes of families c)replaced by the system of pauper apprenticeship d)outlawed by the Combination Acts e)highly inefficient
b)usually a response to the wishes of families
a _____ boom in the 1770s enhanced Britain's infrastructure advantage
canal-building
the switch from charcoal to _____ helped revolutionize the iron industry
coke
all of the following were consequences of revolutionary changes in the textile industry except a)cheaper cotton goods b)a dramatic increase in weavers' wages c)the movement of large numbers of agricultural workers into the industry d)a reduction in child labor e)easier access to yarn for handloom weavers
d)a reduction in child labor
the difficulties faced by the continental economies in their efforts to compete with the British included all of the following except the a)low prices of British mass-produced goods b)complexity and expense of the new technology c)resistance of landowning elites d)scarcity of human capital e)devastation left by the Napoleonic wars
d)scarcity of human capital
scholarly statistical studies of the condition of members of the British working class indicate that improvement
did not come until after 1820
most early industrialists drew on _____ for labor and capital
family and friends
the key development that allowed continental banks to shed their earlier conservative nature was the establishment of
limited liability investment
by reducing the cost of overland freight, the railroad created
national markets
because working conditions were poor in early textile factories, factory owners turned to _____ as an important part of their work force
orphaned children
the earliest steam engines were used to
pump water out of coal mines
the first factories grew out of the
putting-out system
the first modern factories arose in the _____ industry
textile
a constant shortage of _____ drove the work of many early industrial inventors
thread
railroad construction on the continent featured
varying degrees of government involvment
in the eighteenth century, a shortage of _____ held British industry back
wood
