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Review Quiz #15
Industrial Revolution
1. Adam Smith was founding father of which
economic idea?
A) mercantilism
B) invisible hand
C) iron law of wages D) Laffer curve
E) laissez faire
2. Which economist published Inquiry into the
Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
David Ricardo
Thomas Malthus
Adam Smith
John Maynard Keynes
Milton Friedman
3. David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus are both key
figures in
A) compiling new economic laws determining
the impact of the Industrial Revolution
B) creating important inventions which spurred
the Industrial Revolution by allowing one
person to do the work of many people
C) developing in the steam engine which
allowed factories to move away from water
power
D) encouraging the British government to take
colonies in Asia to find new markets
E) brining the Industrial Revolution technologies
from England to continental nations
4. David Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages supported the
idea that
A) wages would always sink to subsistence
levels
B) wages would increase as industry grew
C) wages would increase as population growth
stalled
D) wages drooped as workers moved to cities
E) wages went up as the government became
less involved in the economy
5. James Watt is best known for having invented the
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
steam engine
idea of all-weather roads
flying shuttle
spinning frame
power loom
6. The agricultural improvements of the eighteenth
century most clearly resulted in
A) increased agricultural productivity and
increased urbanization
B) the Industrial Revolution
C) a sharp decrease in hunger and poverty in
Europe
D) sustained economic growth for Eastern
European peasants
E) the end of serfdom in Russia
7. Which of the following groups would be most
likely to oppose the Industrial Revolution?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Romantic poets
Aristocratic landowners
Bourgeoisie merchants
Overseas colonists
Mechanics and engineers
8. While England was dominating production of most
goods in the early nineteenth century, France was
able to make inroads in the production of
A) pig iron
C) railroad tracks
E) rubber
B) luxury goods
D) cotton
9. England's population growth in the early
nineteenth century did not slow its industrial
progress because
A) the population growth provided more laborers
to work in new factories
B) many Englishmen decided to take their
families to colonies in Britain's growing
empire
C) England was able to import enough food
from its Asian colonies
D) continental wars continued to lower the
population before it grew too large
E) new larger farms kept the people from
occupying the city
10. The Crystal Palace built for the Great Exhibition
of 1851 best displayed
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
England's growing political liberalism
England's leadership in industrialism
England's great empire
England's domination of continental affairs
England's great naval power
11. Development in ships after the Age of
Exploration focused on
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
intercontinental travel
passenger travel
carrying freight
moving through canals
smaller ships
12. The puddling furnace helped to revolutionize
which industry in England?
A) Textiles
C) Coal
E) Agricultural
B) Iron
D) Railroad
13. The first industry to reap the benefits of the
Industrial Revolution was
A) metallurgy
C) shipbuilding
E) jewelry
B) textiles
D) transportation
14. Compared to men, women and children during
the Industrial Revolution
A)
B)
C)
D)
did not normally have to work
faced even worse conditions
worked primarily in textile plants
did not have enough skills to operate
machines
E) had restrictions placed on the amount they
could work
15. The invention of the water frame to spin cloth
faster was important because it
A) allowed factories to be built away from the
water
B) made it necessary to have a large number of
workers in order to use it
C) fostered the growth of the steam engine
D) created a new type of cloth which was far
more durable than cotton
E) let workers create cloth from within their
own homes
16. The invention of the steam engine was important
because it
A) allowed factories to be built anywhere, not
just near water
B) displaced coal, which was running out in
England
C) set the tone for the invention of the modern
combustion engine
D) made it possible for hundreds of workers to
work in the same factory
E) kept large factories from putting the workers
in serious danger
17. Agricultural revolution helped fuel the Industrial
Revolution by
A) allowing people who no longer had to work
as farmers to work as laborers
B) spurring trade among the continent for the
now abundant farm products produced
C) forcing farmers to keep up with technology
in order to stay competitive
D) producing crops for people both on the
continent in European colonies abroad
E) ending the epidemics of disease which had
plagued Europe since the middle ages
18. One way in which gender roles changed after the
Industrial Revolution was that
A) women primarily worked as secretaries and
nurses
B) women were expected to concentrate on
housework and child care
C) women could now work in the factories
alongside men
D) women from the poorest families no longer
needed to work
E) women were expected to marry late
19. Factory workers after 1850 experienced
A) a generally increasing standard of living
B) steadily decreasing wages and colonial wars
began
C) increasingly unemployment due to
competition from the non–Western world
D) more power due to the successes of labor in
the mid-nineteenth century
E) less competition from unskilled workers
20. Which class benefited most from the Industrial
Revolution?
A) Peasants
B) Urban workers
C) The bourgeoisie D) The aristocracy
E) Royalty