Chapter 26 Self-Assessment

. 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.

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.

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.

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.

. 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.

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.

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.

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.

. Modern industrialization had its start in the following nation:

The United States

Great Britain

Germany

Russia

. All of the following were conducive to industrialization in Britain EXCEPT:

A low rate of unemployment.

Reserves of coal for power

A well-developed banking system

A thriving merchant class

. The following industry mechanized very early and was the first to successfully do so:

Railroads

Shipping

Munitions

Textiles

. All of the following technological innovations were important to mechanization EXCEPT:

The spinning jenny

The water frame

The spinning mule

The static shuttle

. All of the following men contributed significantly to the development of mechanical power EXCEPT:

Denis Papin

Thomas Newcomen

Thomas Savery

Thomas Edison

. All of the following contributed to the development of the factory system EXCEPT:

Dependence on large machinery.

Large numbers of agricultural workers who wanted to relocate to urban settings.

The need to transport fuel and raw materials to centers of production.

Greater efficiency in locating many machines together.

. The first practical steam-powered riverboat went from:

New York to Albany

Liverpool to London

Paris to Berlin

Vienna to Berlin

. The first man to import industrialism into the United States toward the end of the eighteenth century was:

Thomas Jefferson

Samuel Slater

Thomas Edison

James Dewey

. 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.

Went from almost nothing to equal British production by the year 1893.

Had doubled that of Great Britain by 1914.

Utilized more up-to-date production methods rather than the expensive trial and error exercises in Great Britain.

. Mauveine was:

A ship powered by both sails and steam.

The first synthetic fertilizer.

The first synthetic dye.

An artificial silk.

. Dynamite was invented by:

Charles Goodyear, in 1869.

A Swedish chemist and engineer, Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

An American named Charles Michael Faraday.

Nikola Tesla, a structural engineer.

. 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.

For light bulbs, eliminating the need for the very dangerous gas lights of the Victorian era.

For parlor tricks, such as delivering a mild shock when shaking hands.

In the realm of communications, to send telegraphs.

. All of the following contributed to the development of wireless communication EXCEPT:

James Clerk Maxwell

William Lamb

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Guglielmo Marconi

. All of the following have been associated with the invention of the automobile EXCEPT:

Gottlieb Daimler

Robert Peel

Karl Benz

Siegfried Marcus

. 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.

The recoil cylinder cushioned the force of guns' recoil.

Field artillery could be anchored, aimed, and fired continuously.

Precision machining of breech-locks and metallic cartridges made loading and firing easier and faster.

. 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.

Agricultural improvements led to a greater supply of food.

Scientific advances in medicine resulted in a lower mortality rate from disease or infection.

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.

. 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.

Most members of the landed elites continued to maintain privilege, but began losing ground to the rising middle class.

The middle class developed differentiated levels, with industrialists, lawyers, bankers and other at similar levels at the top, and tradesmen and handcrafters below.

A new lower class â the working class â developed.

. Urban factory workers were distinguished from farmers by:

The amount of money they earned.

Their relative freedom to move about and change jobs as they wished and to organize for collective negotiation.

The "male only" atmosphere in the factories that tended to shut women out of factory work.

The deplorable working conditions and hazards of the unregulated factories.

. The tenements around factories in industrial cities were called "dark Satanic Mills" by:

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

William Blake

Robert Walpole

. The phrase, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his works," was coined by:

Henri de Saint-Simon

Louis Blanc

Charles Fourier

Karl Marx

. 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.

He led a movement to establish a trade union.

He called for a national strike of all trade unions.

He demonstrated that better living conditions for workers resulted in higher profits.

. All of the following is true of Karl Marx EXCEPT:

He was the son of a prosperous attorney.

He was exiled from Germany and France.

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.

He was strongly influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

. All of the following is true of Emmeline Pankhurst EXCEPT:

She was the most famous of the British political feminists.

She and her daughters formed the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903.

She was imprisoned and transported to Australia for political agitation, where she lived out the remainder of her life.

She and her supporters resorted to protest and civil disobedience to call attention to their cause.

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