Chapter 26 Quiz

. 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 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

Facilities were initially located near running water to provide power

Steam power eventually allowed factories to locate in urban areas

. The first practical steam-powered riverboat was invented by:

Robert Fulton

Denis Papin

Samuel Slater

Alfred Nobel

. 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

. Which country had double the production of steel than Britain by 1914?

Germany

The United States

France

Russia

. Celluloid was:

A ship powered by both sails and steam

The first synthetic fertilizer

The first synthetic plastic

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

. Nikola Tesla's inventions allowed for:

The use of electricity as a weapon

The introduction of the electric car in the United States

The development of generators by Michael Faraday

The adoption of electricity throughout Europe

. Who developed the "wireless telegraph" in 1903?

James Clerk Maxwell

William Lamb

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Guglielmo Marconi

. Who invented the first true automobile?

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 development of the brass cartridge led to breech-loading weapons coming of age

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 were joined by the "nouveau riche."

The middle class developed differentiated levels, with industrialists, lawyers, bankers and other at similar levels at the top, and small business owners, foremen and supervisors in factories, and shopkeepers below

The working class sold their labor for cash wages

. A majority of British factory workers in the early Industrial Revolution were

Migrants from India and Africa

Former soldiers and sailors

Skilled male workers

Women and children

. The horrible living conditions of factory workers was brought to the attention of the public 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 workers' unions.

He established a model community in Scotland called New Lanark.

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, along with Friedrich Engels, wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848

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 radical 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 civil disobedience to call attention to their cause.

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A map shows the industries in Britain in 1850. Textiles: Central and parts of northern Britain. Copper mining and smelting: Few parts of eastern Britain and southeastern Britain. Tin mining and smelting: Southeastern Britain. Iron extraction and smelting: Few parts of northeastern, northwestern, east central, and eastern Britain. Lead mining: North central and parts of central Britain. Metalware and cutlery: Few parts of northern, central, and southwestern Britain. Salt, soap, chemicals, and glass manufacture: Parts of northwestern and eastern Britain. Shipbuilding: Parts of northern, northeastern, northwestern, and southwestern Britain. Coalfield: Northern, northwestern, and central Britain, and southeastern Wales. The manor ports were Holyhead in Wales, Newcastle on Tyne, Sunderland, Hull, Liverpool, Harwich, London, Bristol, Portsmouth, Chatham, and Dover. The navigable rivers formed a dense network in central Britain. Major railway lines radiated from London and formed a dense network in England. In an inset map, Britain is boxed.

Which industry, noted on the map above, was key to the early industrialization of Britain?

Shipbuilding

Textiles

Lead mining

Metalware and cutlery

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Illustration shows a woman pulling a barrel filled with coal. The barrel is tied to her. Two children are shown pushing the barrel from behind. They are inside a tunnel.

The Mines Act of 1842 ended what practice shown above?

The use of human labor to move oar carts.

The employment of women and girls in coal mining.

The employment of workers more that ten hours as day.

The construction of narrow tunnels in coal mining.

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Photo shows a Ford factory filled with automobiles on a conveyor.

The assembly of automobiles is an example of what innovation in manufacturing?

Continuous-flow production

The American System

Scientific management

Escalated production

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