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Example Questions
Example Question #11 : Industrialization
The process of industrialization reshaped the production of which of the following goods first?
Ships
Buildings
Textiles
Cars
Books
Textiles
The first great wave of industrialization in the eighteenth century focused on the production of textiles. Technological improvements such as the flying shuttle and spinning jenny greatly improved productivity in textiles. These technological improvements also led to the replacement of the artisanal putting-out system with the centralized factory system of production. This process of factories coming to replaced artisans would come to be a defining characteristic of industrialization.
Example Question #12 : Industrialization
Which of the following innovations was not part of the Second Industrial Revolution?
Electrification
The production line
The Newcomen steam engine
The use of oil
The Bessemer steel process
The Newcomen steam engine
Bessemer steel was produced inexpensively from pig iron according to the principle of oxidation. The process was developed during the Second Industrial Revolution, which lasted from between the 1840s and 1860s to 1914. Oil, electricity and electrical communications, and production lines processes were developed during this period. The Newcomen steam engine was invented in 1712 and later refined into the Watt steam engine, which inaugurated the First Industrial Revolution from 1760 to 1840.
Example Question #13 : Industrialization
Prior to the industrial revolution, an artisan would make goods to sell to the population, usually with the help of an apprentice. What was the system of the Industrial Revolution which would allow many workers to produce goods at a much faster rate by giving them simpler, repetitive tasks?
Micromanagement
Industry
Division of Labor
Mercantilism
Manufacturing
Division of Labor
Division of Labor would allow for the construction of assembly lines, in which many unskilled workers would specialize in a very small part of a task to produce goods, like gluing a sole onto a shoe. This would replace the old system in which one craftsman would make, to keep with our example, an entire pair of shoes by hand.
Example Question #14 : Industrialization
Which new military technology created by far the greatest number of casualties during the First World War?
Artillery
Machine Guns
Airplanes
Poison Gas
Tanks
Artillery
Artillery accounted for close to sixty percent of all battlefield casualties during the First World War. The mass production of large, cheap ammunition made it possible for a besieging force to bombard a fixed position for weeks at a time, without stopping.
Example Question #15 : Industrialization
During the Industrial Revolution, European cities grew exponentially. Which of the following was one major cause of this development?
Population displacement caused by warfare
Decreasing work prospects in government as bureaucracies were cut down
The invention of the automobile as a means of transportation
Increased numbers of factories
A surge of lawlessness in the European countryside
Increased numbers of factories
During the Industrial Revolution, factories became a dominant feature in the economies of large cities. Rural villagers and townsmen left worsening agricultural prospects for new opportunities working in these factories, causing city populations to balloon.
Example Question #16 : Industrialization
Industrialization in Europe involved all of the following except ___________.
the rise of cities
the end of agriculture
the mechanization of labor
the development of working- and middle-class identities
the use of new technology to improve transportation
the end of agriculture
The Industrial Revolution did not end the need for agriculture. In fact, in most places in Europe during most of the nineteenth century, the majority of the population continued to work in agriculture.
Example Question #17 : Industrialization
All of the following were tensions caused by the Industrial Revolution except ___________.
middle and working class fears over loose morality in working class life in the city
disagreements between managers and workers over the celebration of "Saint Monday"
debates between Liberals and Socialists over the need for government intervention in the regulation of factories
fights between imperial agents and their home offices as imperial agents saw the declining importance of empire to the industrializing colonial nations
the increased conflict between the language of domesticity and the need for most working-class women to work outside the home
fights between imperial agents and their home offices as imperial agents saw the declining importance of empire to the industrializing colonial nations
The empire grew in importance during the Industrial Revolution as industrializing nations called on the empire to produce the raw materials needed to manufacture goods. All of the other answers describe tensions that existed during the period.
Example Question #18 : Industrialization
The cotton mill factories developed during the 18th and early 19th century originally grew out of the ____________ region of England.
Northeast
Northwest
Southeast
Southwest
None of these answers is correct.
Northeast
The earliest mills were concentrated in Lancashire and in Manchester in Northeast England. The Northeast remained the industrial capital of England for a long time thereafter.
Example Question #19 : Industrialization
England was able to industrialize before other Western European states for all of the following reasons except _____________.
England encompasses a relatively small geographic area
the technical genius of Kings George I and George IV and their support of inventors
England's naturally extensive coal deposits
it could rely upon its colonies for foodstuffs and natural resources
conveniently placed waterways and extensive coastline
the technical genius of Kings George I and George IV and their support of inventors
All of the "incorrect" answers were actual factors that were important in making England uniquely situated to industrialize before other states. Kings George I and George IV had no known technical genius.