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Chapter 26 Quiz
Industrialization and Its Discontents, 1750–1914
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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 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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Facilities were initially located near running water to provide power
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Steam power eventually allowed factories to locate in urban areas
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The first practical steam-powered riverboat was invented by:
Robert Fulton
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Denis Papin
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Samuel Slater
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Alfred Nobel
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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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Which country had double the production of steel than Britain by 1914?
Germany
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The United States
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France
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Russia
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Celluloid was:
A ship powered by both sails and steam
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The first synthetic fertilizer
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The first synthetic plastic
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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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Nikola Tesla's inventions allowed for:
The use of electricity as a weapon
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The introduction of the electric car in the United States
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The development of generators by Michael Faraday
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The adoption of electricity throughout Europe
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Who developed the "wireless telegraph" in 1903?
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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Who invented the first true automobile?
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 development of the brass cartridge led to breech-loading weapons coming of age
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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 were joined by the "nouveau riche."
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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
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The working class sold their labor for cash wages
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A majority of British factory workers in the early Industrial Revolution were
Migrants from India and Africa
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Former soldiers and sailors
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Skilled male workers
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Women and children
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The horrible living conditions of factory workers was brought to the attention of the public 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 workers' unions.
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He established a model community in Scotland called New Lanark.
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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, along with Friedrich Engels, wrote
The Communist Manifesto
in 1848
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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 radical 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 civil disobedience to call attention to their cause.
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Which industry, noted on the map above, was key to the early industrialization of Britain?
Shipbuilding
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Textiles
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Lead mining
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Metalware and cutlery
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The Mines Act of 1842 ended what practice shown above?
The use of human labor to move oar carts.
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The employment of women and girls in coal mining.
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The employment of workers more that ten hours as day.
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The construction of narrow tunnels in coal mining.
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The assembly of automobiles is an example of what innovation in manufacturing?
Continuous-flow production
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The American System
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Scientific management
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Escalated production
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