WH: U. 3 Test Review (S2)

Which industry launched the Industrial Revolution?

• steel

• railroad

• agriculture

• textile

Which innovation led to an increase in cloth production at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?

• electric sewing machine

• steam engine

• Bessemer process

• spinning jenny

What was a new method of production during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914)?

• factory system

• assembly line

• steam power

• interchangeable parts

Which best explains why the Industrial Revolution led to a larger middle class?

• Wealth was shared more evenly.

• Land ownership became more important than before.

• Businesses needed more educated people.

• Factory workers earned higher salaries.

Why did Karl Marx believe that capitalism would be overthrown?

• Workers would revolt.

• The middle class would grow too large.

• Business owners would choose socialism.

• Laborers would leave the factory.

Which most directly led to the rise of mass entertainment during the late 1800s?

• psychoanalysis

• increased leisure time

• invention of television

• expanded suffrage

Which was NOT used to justify European imperialism in the late nineteenth century?

• social Darwinism

• a belief in European superiority

• the philosophy of Karl Marx

• a new wave of nationalism

Which was an impact of European imperialism on the people of Africa?

• greater self-rule

• an end to tribal conflict

• expansion of slavery

• loss of natural resources

Which was an impact of European imperialism on Africa?

• loss of traditions and culture

• expansion of slavery

• an end to tribal conflict

• greater self-rule

Which led the British government to shut down the East India Company and rule India directly?

• the Opium Wars

• the Sepoy Mutiny

• the Anglo-Boer War

• the Taiping Rebellion