Industrialization & Imperialism Test Review Part 1

What is one reason why employers would hire women instead of men during industrialization? 

• Women can do more difficult tasks

• Women have more work experience than men

• Women were seen as easier to train

• There wasn't enough men to work.

True or False: Some individuals in the middle classes ended up being more wealthy than landowners and aristocrats during industrialization.

• True

• False

What did many factory workers NOT do to improve safety conditions, get shorter hours, reduce child labor, and higher wages?

• Picketed businesses

• Mechanization

• Went on strike

What is the name of groups of workers seeking better working conditions? 

• Unions

• Collective Bargaining

• Utilitarianism

• Robber Barons

What was one major effect of industrialization on American society?

• More people received health care and benefits

• More people took up family farming

• More people moved to urban areas

Which of the following are the most crucial raw materials for industrialization to take place?  

• Oil & Copper

• Copper & Iron

• Coal & Copper

• Coal & Iron

______ made it illegal to hire children under 9 years old. Children from 9- 12 could not work more than 8 hours. Young people 13-17 could not work more than 12 hours. 

• Ten Hours Act of 1847

• Factory Act of 1833

• Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800

• The Jacobson Act of 1872

_____ prevented women and children from working underground.

• Mole Act of 1889

• Mines Act of 1842

• Factory Act of 1833

• Underground Act of 1889

______: outlawed workers right to form unions and strike. 

• Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800

• Factory Act of 1833

• Strike Act of 1880

• Stanton Act of 1875

In terms of industrialization, the word strike means to what?

• Refuse to clean

• Refuse to work until demands are met.

• Refuse to sleep

• To accost someone