WH2 The Industrial Age:Pre-Test quiz pt 2

An effect of the Industrial Revolution was that wages around the world

increased.

James Watt played an important role in the Industrial Revolution by

making steam engines a reliable power source.

What was the most important role textiles played in the Industrial Revolution?

Machines invented to mass-produce textiles led to other inventions.

What most likely changed when cottage industries began to disappear?

People abandoned cottages all over England.{WRONG}

During the Agricultural Revolution, what was the main advantage of tenant farming rather than moving to the city for work?

Tenant farmers could use a skill they already had rather than starting over.

Which describes the connection between a mechanical loom and a cotton gin?

The loom was invented first to increase textile production, and then the gin produced more cotton.

The excerpt is from The History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, by Edward Baines. A great number of streams . . . furnish water-power adequate to turn many hundred mills: they afford the element of water, indispensable for scouring, bleaching, printing, dyeing, and other processes of manufacture: and when collected in their larger channels, or employed to feed canals, they supply a superior inland navigation, so important for the transit of raw materials and merchandise. According to the excerpt, in what ways did water help England's industrial boom?

Water supplied power and a means of transportation.

Before the Agricultural Revolution, much of England's farmland was

common

Eli Whitney invented the

cotton gin

The Agricultural Revolution helped spark the Industrial Revolution by increasing the amount of food produced and by

decreasing the number of farmworkers.

An effect of the steamboat's popularity was that

fewer people traveled by rail.{WRONG}

Prices for products became more affordable as a result of new forms of __?__, which got things to market faster and cheaper.

transportation