WH Quiz 11

Which of the following statements most accurately describe the role of population growth in the origins of the Industrial Revolution?

As food production became more efficient and yields increased, the population in the countryside began to grow larger. Many young men who inherited little or no land began to migrate to cities to find work. This steady stream of labor provided an industrial workforce.

What most accurately describes the role of the government in fostering the Industrial Revolution?

The lack of central political power in Britain created fewer obstacles to manufacturing and trade than in other countries.

Although the enclosure movement had a negative impact on industrialization, it was good for poor citizens. True or false

False

What is the replacement of human labor with that of machines called?

Mechanization

What is the manufacture of many identical products called?

mass production

What most accurately describes the role played by the division of labor in the industrial revolution

The division of labor helped make production more efficient and streamlined

Which 2 inventions were essential elements in the development and spread of industrialization

The steam engine and the electric telegraph.

What can you infer about the textile industry?

The cotton textile industry flourished all over Europe

What can you conclude about industrial development in Britain?

Britain was the most industrially developed state in 1850, and it led Europe in almost every industry.

What state had cotton as the foundation of industrialization?

Great Britian

What state invented interchangeable parts?

United States

What state’s textile industry was stifled by the British?

India

What states have a large agricultural population?

United States, India, Great Britain

What was true of female and immigrant laborers in the United States?

They were largely unskilled

What are the direct causes of the industrial revolution?

Population growth, government encouragement, fascination with technology, fluid society, agricultural revolution, urbanization

What are not direct causes of the industrial revolution

Child labor regulations, the mercantilist system, importation of Asian spices, improved Atlantic transport, banning of slave labor, unification of Eu

Which Scotsman invented a more efficient steam engine in the 1760s?

James Watt

Which innovation linked cities, allowing rapid transport of goods and greatly contributed to the industrialization of Europe.

the railroad

What is the process by which work formerly done by hand came to be done by machines?

Mechanization

What can you infer about the banking industry?

Banks tended to appear near major cities, especially in the 1820s

What can you conclude about industrial development in France?

France focused largely on the production of fabrics

Textile industry located in regions far from major cities

France

Began to industrialize in the 1770s

Great Britain

Imported British Machinery

German states, France, Great Britain

Became major producer of coal, iron, and steel after 1850

German states

Who made up the majority of textile weavers in Massachusetts?

Women

What can you infer about the iron industry?

The iron industry often prospered near coal mines

Similarly, what can you conclude about industrial development in the German states?

Saxony, Bohemia, and western Germany were the most heavily industrialized areas in Germany

What states had a thriving cotton textile industry?

German states, Belgium, and Great Britain

What states had the most industrialized economy on the continent by 1840?

Belgium

What state had laws barring export of machiney?

Great Britain

What state had large coal deposits in the Ruhr valley?

German states

What two innovations helped overcome the vastness of the United States?

Railroads and steamboats

Who invented mass production through pottery making?

Josiah Wedgwood

Abraham Darby discovered that this fuel could be used instead of charcoal and wood to heat iron ore?

What is coke?

What was the first machine to turn fossil fuels into mechanical energy?

the steam engine

This innovation began linking cities throughout Europe and the United States in the 19th century, drastically reducing travel times?

the railroad

What helped create cotton export industry in the United states and fuel the textile boom in Europe

the cotton gin

This innovation reduced labor costs and was the key to what Europeans called the American system of manufacture

interchangeable parts