Unit 9 Review

In 1914, the British Empire stretched across the globe. Which colony was used to send Britain silk, tea, and cotton?

• India

• Canada

• Australia

• The United States

What canal projects were being made during the Industrial Era?

• Panama, Suez (Mesoamerica and Africa)

• Suez, Erie (Africa and United States)

• Panama, Malaca (Mesoamerica and Asia)

• Bosporous and Malaca (Europe and Asia)

New economic theories came about during the Industrial Revolution in response to

• the demands of wealthy industrialists for laws to regulate economies

• the successful efforts of abolitionists to bring an end to the slavery trade

• the economic disparities between the wealthy and the working class

• the lack of economic power women had in industrialized societies

During the Industrial Revolution the expansion of free enterprise economic principles resulted in

• an increase in government regulation of factories

• the workers sharing in the profits of the factory

• an accumulation of wealth by factory owners

• the passage of additional protective tariffs

The lives of many women and children changed during the Industrial Revolution because

• factory owners created scholarships for women and children to attend college

• increasingly women and children became wage earners in the working class

• many women choose to work rather than get married and have children

• women and children went to school to train for jobs in the new factories

British politician William Wilberforce was successful in changing public policy about

• enslavement of Africans

• social contracts

• voting rights for women

• absolutism

One result of the rise of European imperialism during the nineteenth century included the —

• dissolution of the British empire as the French rose to prominence

• creation of a British empire that was concentrated in North America

• colonization of China by large numbers of British immigrants

• establishment of a British empire that extended into all continents

In response to the poor factory and urban conditions brought about by industrialization in the nineteenth century, many workers started to —

• emigrate to European protectorates

• demand reforms in labor policies

• advocate laissez-faire government policies

• leave the city to move to the country

European nations in the nineteenth century had an economic incentive to colonize Africa because of —

• the wealthy markets for European goods

• a desire to expand the Atlantic slavery trade

• the vast natural resources available

• a need for strategic military outposts

Many colonized people responded to European imperialism by —

• cooperating with European colonists to share the profits from industrialization

• aiding European colonists in establishing borders consistent with the ethnic settlements

• teaching European colonists how to survive in tropical environments

• organizing resistance movements against European colonists