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