Industrial Revolution Quiz

Farmers began to implement which of the following to keep them from exhausting soil nutrients?

• seed scattering

• crop rotation

• skipping years

• none are correct

2.  Which of the following is not a reason the Industrial Revolution began in England?

• Had good harbors and port facilities

  
  

• Had iron ore to build machines, tools, and buildings.

  
  

• Had water power and coal for steam engines.

  
  

• Had large forests to obtain fuel for steam engines

3.  Matthew Boulton was a businessman who helped organize, manage, and take on the financial risk of creating Watt's new steam engine.  That made Boulton a(n)

• Titan of Industry

• Mill Boss

• Entrepreneur

• Investor of Industry

4.  According to an 1842 study, what was the average life span of a British working class person living in the slums?

• 35

• 42

• 17

• 21

A factory owner would be a part of which social class?

• lower middle class

• upper middle class

• upper class

• working class

6.  Which would be considered a positive effect that industrialization had on social classes?

• Factory workers were overworked and underpaid

  
  

• Women continued to pefrorm domestic tasks and raise children.

  
  

• Upper class people resented the middle class who became wealthier than they were

  
  

• Middle class children engaged in educational and leisure activities

7.  Which is the best explanation for why children were often employed in British mining and factory work?

• Less likely to complain about working conditions

  
  

• Paid less than adults

  
  

• Could perform tasks that larger adults couldn't

  
  

• Less likely to join unions

The British Industrial Revolution has many positive and Negative effects. Place the letter(s) under the category that indicates if it was a negative or postive.

Groups:

(a) Positive Effects of the I.R.

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(b) Negative Effect of I.R.

• great social mobility

• Increase in child labor

• overcrowded urban centers

• Increase in wages

• contaminated water supplies

• Improvements in transportation

8.  Why was the United States able to industrialize successfully?

• Most of the population was well educated, allowing for industry to prosper

  
  

• The U.S. had the natural and labor resources needed for industrialization.

  
  

• The U.S. had forests to use as fuel for their factories

  
  

• Most of the population lived in cities and workers were plentiful.

9.  According to capitalism, which of the following would be considered a "good' government?

• One that creates policies that benefit the most people

  
  

• One where the government interferes with business as little as possible

  
  

• One that allows government to regulate all business activities

  
  

• One that creates Utopian communities