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Chapter 26 Self-Assessment
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The following list is in correct chronological order:
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams; Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto; Albert Einstein publishes on the theory of relativity.
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Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto; Albert Einstein publishes on the theory of relativity; Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
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Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams; Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto; Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Albert Einstein publishes on the theory of relativity.
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Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto; Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams; Albert Einstein publishes on the theory of relativity.
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The following list is in the correct chronological order:
The Suez Canal is opened; James Watt perfects the steam engine; Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio message; Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent light bulb.
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James Watt perfects the steam engine; The Suez Canal is opened; Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent light bulb; Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio message.
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The Suez Canal is opened; Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent light bulb; Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio message; James Watt perfects the steam engine.
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The Suez Canal is opened; James Watt perfects the steam engine; Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio message; Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent light bulb.
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Modern industrialization had its start in the following nation:
The United States
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Great Britain
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Germany
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Russia
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All of the following were conducive to industrialization in Britain EXCEPT:
A low rate of unemployment.
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Reserves of coal for power
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A well-developed banking system
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A thriving merchant class
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The following industry mechanized very early and was the first to successfully do so:
Railroads
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Shipping
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Munitions
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Textiles
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All of the following technological innovations were important to mechanization EXCEPT:
The spinning jenny
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The water frame
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The spinning mule
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The static shuttle
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All of the following men contributed significantly to the development of mechanical power EXCEPT:
Denis Papin
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Thomas Newcomen
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Thomas Savery
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Thomas Edison
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All of the following contributed to the development of the factory system EXCEPT:
Dependence on large machinery.
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Large numbers of agricultural workers who wanted to relocate to urban settings.
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The need to transport fuel and raw materials to centers of production.
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Greater efficiency in locating many machines together.
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The first practical steam-powered riverboat went from:
New York to Albany
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Liverpool to London
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Paris to Berlin
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Vienna to Berlin
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The first man to import industrialism into the United States toward the end of the eighteenth century was:
Thomas Jefferson
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Samuel Slater
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Thomas Edison
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James Dewey
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Between 1870 and 1914, German production of steel accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:
Were able to develop heavier, more expensive steel than that produced by Great Britain.
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Went from almost nothing to equal British production by the year 1893.
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Had doubled that of Great Britain by 1914.
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Utilized more up-to-date production methods rather than the expensive trial and error exercises in Great Britain.
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Mauveine was:
A ship powered by both sails and steam.
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The first synthetic fertilizer.
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The first synthetic dye.
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An artificial silk.
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Dynamite was invented by:
Charles Goodyear, in 1869.
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A Swedish chemist and engineer, Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
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An American named Charles Michael Faraday.
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Nikola Tesla, a structural engineer.
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The first widespread use of electricity was:
To power cable cars after it was found that a sufficient supply of coal was too heavy for the small motors.
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For light bulbs, eliminating the need for the very dangerous gas lights of the Victorian era.
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For parlor tricks, such as delivering a mild shock when shaking hands.
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In the realm of communications, to send telegraphs.
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All of the following contributed to the development of wireless communication EXCEPT:
James Clerk Maxwell
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William Lamb
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
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Guglielmo Marconi
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All of the following have been associated with the invention of the automobile EXCEPT:
Gottlieb Daimler
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Robert Peel
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Karl Benz
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Siegfried Marcus
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As industrialization progressed, weapons improved in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
The increase of black smoke emitted from automated weapons made it possible to "fog" enemies, making it difficult for them to return fire.
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The recoil cylinder cushioned the force of guns' recoil.
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Field artillery could be anchored, aimed, and fired continuously.
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Precision machining of breech-locks and metallic cartridges made loading and firing easier and faster.
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From about 1700 to 1914, industrialized nations experienced significant population growth for all of the reasons below EXCEPT:
There were more jobs available, so more people had resources.
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Agricultural improvements led to a greater supply of food.
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Scientific advances in medicine resulted in a lower mortality rate from disease or infection.
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Life in cities was safer than in the countryside because of the lower rate of accidental deaths and the presence of policemen and fire departments.
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All of the following statements about the changes in social organization due to industrialization, EXCEPT
As the middle class grew, there were fewer in the lower class.
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Most members of the landed elites continued to maintain privilege, but began losing ground to the rising middle class.
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The middle class developed differentiated levels, with industrialists, lawyers, bankers and other at similar levels at the top, and tradesmen and handcrafters below.
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A new lower class – the working class – developed.
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Urban factory workers were distinguished from farmers by:
The amount of money they earned.
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Their relative freedom to move about and change jobs as they wished and to organize for collective negotiation.
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The "male only" atmosphere in the factories that tended to shut women out of factory work.
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The deplorable working conditions and hazards of the unregulated factories.
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The tenements around factories in industrial cities were called "dark Satanic Mills" by:
Karl Marx
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Friedrich Engels
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William Blake
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Robert Walpole
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The phrase, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his works," was coined by:
Henri de Saint-Simon
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Louis Blanc
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Charles Fourier
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Karl Marx
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All of the following is true of Robert Owen, a factory owner in the north of England, EXCEPT:
He formed an ideal, Utopian community in the United States and lived out his life peacefully in New Hampshire.
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He led a movement to establish a trade union.
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He called for a national strike of all trade unions.
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He demonstrated that better living conditions for workers resulted in higher profits.
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All of the following is true of Karl Marx EXCEPT:
He was the son of a prosperous attorney.
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He was exiled from Germany and France.
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He believed that the working class, or proletariat, would gradually attain power and slowly replace the upper classes through more of an economic evolution than revolution.
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He was strongly influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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All of the following is true of Emmeline Pankhurst EXCEPT:
She was the most famous of the British political feminists.
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She and her daughters formed the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903.
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She was imprisoned and transported to Australia for political agitation, where she lived out the remainder of her life.
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She and her supporters resorted to protest and civil disobedience to call attention to their cause.
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