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Industrial Rev Practice
1. A major reason the Industrial Revolution began in
England was that England possessed
A)
B)
C)
D)
a smooth coastline
abundant coal and iron resources
many waterfalls
numerous mountain ranges
2. Which development caused the other three?
A)
B)
C)
D)
introduction of the factory system
increased urbanization
increased productivity of industrial workers
unsafe working conditions
3. Base your answer to the following question on the
quotation below and on your knowledge of social studies.
"No observer of Manchester [England] in the 1830's and
1840's dwelt on its happy, well-fed people. 'Wretched,
defrauded, oppressed, crushed human nature lying in
bleeding fragments all over the face of society,' wrote an
American in 1845.... Can we be surprised that the first
generation of the labouring poor in . . . Britain looked at
the results of capitalism and found them wanting?"
—E.J. Hobsbawm
This quotation describes some negative effects of the
A)
B)
C)
D)
Black Plague
Glorious Revolution
Napoleonic Wars
Industrial Revolution
4. Which phrase best illustrates the theory of laissez-faire
capitalism?
A) businesses operating with little government
regulation
B) the state establishing production quotas
C) central planning committees setting prices on goods
D) decisions related to distribution being based on
community traditions
5. Which statement represents a central idea of laissez-faire
economics?
A) Class struggles are based on inequities.
B) Workers should form unions to better their
conditions.
C) Prices are best determined by supply and demand.
D) The government should own all means of
production.
6. Which idea is correctly paired with a document that
supports it?
A)
B)
C)
D)
colonialism — The Prince
militarism — Sadler Report
capitalism — Wealth of Nations
monotheism — The Communist Manifesto
7. Adam Smith would most likely agree with which
statement?
A) Revolution is the only solution to economic
problems.
B) Five-year plans are necessary in order to
industrialize.
C) All nations would benefit from an agricultural
economy.
D) Government should follow a laissez-faire policy.
8. Which idea is most closely associated with laissez-faire
economics?
A)
B)
C)
D)
communes
trade unionism
subsistence agriculture
free trade
9. Which heading best completes the partial outline below?
I. _____________________________
A. Market system
B. Profit incentive
C. Entrepreneurs
A)
B)
C)
D)
Forms of Government
Characteristics of Capitalism
Structure of the Guild System
Elements of Culture
10. Base your answer to the following question on the
speakers' statements below.
Speaker A: Government should not interfere in
relations between workers and business owners.
Speaker B: The workers will rise up and overthrow
the privileged class.
Speaker C: Private property will cease to exist. The
people will own the means of production.
Speaker D: A favorable balance of trade should be
maintained by the use of tariffs.
Which two speakers represent Karl Marx’s ideas of
communism?
A) A and B
C) B and D
B) B and C
D) C and D
11. Which event had the greatest influence on the
development of laissez-faire capitalism?
A)
B)
C)
D)
fall of the Roman Empire
invention of the printing press
Industrial Revolution
Green Revolution
12. A key idea in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels is that workers should support the
A) overthrow of the capitalist system
B) establishment of labor unions
C) legislative regulation of wages and working
conditions
D) technological changes in production methods
13. Which statement is supported by the ideas of Karl
Marx?
A) Private ownership of businesses helps workers.
B) Industrialization benefits the wealthy and exploits
the poor.
C) Countries should benefit from the wealth of their
colonies.
D) Industrial capitalism allows workers and
employers to work together for a common
purpose.
14. The breakdown of traditions, increased levels of
pollution, and the expansion of slums are negative
aspects of
A) militarism
C) pogroms
B) collectivization
D) urbanization
15. Base your answer to the following question on the map below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Which concept is most closely associated with the pattern of population distribution in England shown on
this map?
A) urbanization
B) colonization
C) collectivization D) globalization
16. Base your answer to the following question the map
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
18. Which written work criticized the capitalist system
during the Industrial Revolution?
A) Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels
B) “White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling
C) The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
D) The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
19. In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels expressed the idea that
A) religion should be the most important factor in
society
B) power should be determined by a person’s wealth
C) profits from work should belong to the workers
D) supply and demand should control prices
20. Base your answer to the following question on Base
your answer to the following question on the passage
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Which conclusion is best supported by the information
on the map?
A) England’s natural resources led to the growth of
industrial cities.
B) In 1830, England had an unfavorable balance of
trade.
C) Great Britain’s prosperity unified the people.
D) People emigrated from Great Britain because of
pollution.
17. During the Industrial Revolution, which develop ment
resulted from the other three?
A)
B)
C)
D)
Factory conditions affected people's health.
Labor unions were formed.
Unskilled laborers received low wages.
Machinery replaced workers.
...The history of all hitherto existing society is the
history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician [a person of high birth]
and plebeian [common person], lord and serf,
guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor
and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one
another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden,
now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either
in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large,
or in the common ruin of the contending
[competing] classes...
This passage expresses the ideas of
A)
B)
C)
D)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Karl Marx
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
21. Where did Karl Marx predict a revolution of the
proletariat would occur first?
A)
B)
C)
D)
industrial Europe
independent Latin America
colonial Africa
agricultural Russia
22. A main idea of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels'
Communist Manifesto is that the proletariat
A) would need foreign help to achieve its
revolutionary ends
B) had to cooperate with the capitalists to gain
economic rewards
C) should allow the capitalists to control the means of
production
D) must unite to overthrow the capitalist class
23. Base your answer on the drawing below and on your
knowledge of social studies.
24. According to the theories of Karl Marx, history can be
viewed as a
A) succession of famines that result in the destruction
of civilizations
B) repeating cycle of imperialism and colonialism
C) listing of the accomplishments of the ruling
classes
D) continuous struggle between economic classes
25. According to Thomas Malthus, the rate of increase for
human populations in relation to the rate of increase for
food production was a problem. Malthus believed that
A) industrial development would severely limit
population growth
B) famine and war were natural checks on population
growth
C) countries with larger populations would conquer
countries with smaller populations
D) food production would increase at a faster rate
than populations would
The drawing illustrates workers' reactions to which
development of the Industrial Revolution?
A)
B)
C)
D)
machines replacing workers
slum housing conditions
rise of unions
equal sharing of profits with workers