Industrial Revolution

Canal-building in Britain took place largely between

1760 and 1820

The first railroads were developed in Britain in the

1820's

By 1800, industrialism was most evident in which of these nations?

Britain

Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist is a satiric attack upon all of the following EXCEPT

Britain's landed gentry

Identify below the correct chronological sequence of European industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries:

Britain, France, Germany, Russia

This inventor is perhaps best known for his mechanical farm tools, such as harvesters and reapers:

Cyrus McCormick

Which of these inventors was NOT responsible for industrial innovations in the 18th century?

George Stephenson

One national statistic from the 19th century reveals that in 1801 about 17% of the population lived in cities numbering 20,000 or more people. By 1851 the percentage had risen to 35% and by 1891 to 51%. Which of the following nations does this statistic most likely refer to?

Germany

Squalid scenes of urban misery and poverty were sketched and painted by this 19th century artist:

Gustave Dore

The infamous British workhouse was created by the

New Poor Law of 1834

Which of these nations was the last to industrialize?

Russia

Which of the following was an important feature of the corporation, first legalized in the 1840's:

The investor was only liable for his own investment

This inventor is responsible for a major breakthrough in the industrial production of steel:

Thomas Newcomen

One immediate result of the mechanization of the textile industry in Britain in the mid-18th century was

a dramatic reduction in the price of cotton goods.

The machine which had the greatest impact upon the preservation of slavery in the American South was the

cotton gin

In the 18th century, friendly societies and mutual aid societies were the precursors of modern

labor unions

Which of the following groups was the most vocal in calling for the formation of trade unions in the early 19th century?

artisans and skilled craftsmen

The rise of industrialism in the mid 18th'century depended upon all of the following except:

availability of electricity

This form of iron is hard but rather brittle. Until the late 1800's it was a major structural component of bridges and buildings:

cast iron

A major medical consequence of urbanization was this potentially fatal intestinal disease caused by drinking water contaminated by human sewage:

cholera

Laborers, working in their own homes, using little more than hand-tools, were essential elements of the

domestic system or putting-out system

Laborers for the first factories in the 18th century England were often:

farmers dispossessed of their lands by enclosure

The British enclosure movement either directly or indirectly affected industrialism in all of the following ways EXCEPT

it created a demand for farm tools and machines

The Industrial Revolution began in England for all of the following reasons except:

its predominantly Catholic population was highly motivated by a powerful work ethic

Which of the following does NOT explain the slow pace of continental Europe's industrialization between 1780 to 1820?

lack of resources and sufficient transportation systems

The British Ten Hours Act of 1847

limited child and female laborers to ten hours per day`

The Luddite riots in England following the Napoleonic Wars caused Parliament to

make industrial sabotage a capital offense

Until the late 1700's, British factories were generally located

near sources of flowing water

All of the following diseases were major killers of the industrial era in Europe from 1750 to 1900, EXCEPT

plague

The British Factory Act of 1833

restricted the employment of children and adolescents.

Eli Whitney's cotton gin

separated cotton lint from cotton seeds

Which of the following products was the first to be produced industrially in Britain in the mid-18th century?

textiles

All of the following were important inventions of the early Industrial Revolution EXCEPT

the electric motor

All of the following inventions were developed before the 1800s except:

the steam locomotive

This form of iron is rather soft and non-brittle. It has long been fashioned by blacksmiths for both decorative and functional purposes:

wrought iron