Chapter 22 Quiz

Which movement in the 1700s promoted reason, liberty, and self determination?

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Renaissance

• The Enlightenment

• The American Revolution

Which philosopher believed people were born with unalienable rights and that the government should protect them?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Robert Owen

• Voltaire

What is the name of the movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation due to intense pride?

• A revolution

• Protestantism

• Enlightenment

• Nationalism

Which nation was the first to industrialize?

• Britain

• France

• Germany

• Japan

Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations describes

• Utopian Communist communities

• Democratic Republicanism

• Laissez Faire Economics

• Mercantilism as an ideal economic system

Who designed the first efficient steam engine?

• James Hargreaves
• John Kay
• Richard Arkwright
• James Watt

The Haitian revolution was the only revolution of the period 1750 to 1900 that was initiated and fought by

• Creoles
• Mestizos
• Foreign mercenaries
• Slaves

Which of the following most directly explains the importance of improved agricultural productivity to the industrialization of economic production in western Europe in the period 1750–1900 ?

• Because the nutritional quality of food greatly improved, more people were able to sustain the long working hours that factory labor required.

• Because less labor was needed on farms, more people moved to urban areas to work in factories.

• Because farmers needed less land to produce the same amount of food, they could build textile factories on the excess land.

• Because greater quantities of food could be sold at higher prices, governments could tax farmers at higher rates and use those revenues to build factories.

Which of the following best describes how nineteenth-century European industrialization affected European women’s lives?

• By the end of the century, new social welfare legislation made it possible for most women to earn university degrees.

• Married women found it increasingly difficult to balance wage work and family responsibilities.

• By the end of the century, women gained the right to vote in most European countries.

• Women came to dominate the agricultural workforce as men moved to cities to take industrial jobs.

The gender and age makeup of the workforce shown in the image best illustrates which of the following phenomena in mid-nineteenth-century European society?

• Working-class families and bourgeois families generally had similar occupational patterns.

• Within factories, skilled workers continued to be predominantly male, while women and children continued to perform mostly unskilled factory work.

• The development of working-class neighborhoods was characterized by unsanitary living conditions and high levels of crime.

• As more women moved into office or clerical jobs, factory owners’ treatment of female workers improved.