Changing Expectations - Part 1

Question 1

Which characteristic was not a reason that the Industrial Revolution began in England?

Answer 1

long-life expectancy

Question 2

Which industry launched the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 2

textile

Question 3

Which innovation led to an increase in cloth production at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 3

flying shuttle

Question 4

Which new method of transportation did Robert Fulton pioneer?

Answer 4

steamship

Question 5

What was a new method of production during the Second Industrial Revolution?

Answer 5

assembly line

Question 6

What was not a source of energy introduced during the late 1800s?

Answer 6

coal

Question 7

Which is not an example of the human cost of industrialization?

Answer 7

slave trade

Question 8

Which best explains why the Industrial Revolution led to a larger middle class?

Answer 8

Businesses needed more educated people.

Question 9

Which best describes the beliefs of Robert Owen?

Answer 9

People can build a utopian society with socialist ideals.

Question 10

Why did Karl Marx believe that capitalism would be overthrown?

Answer 10

Workers would revolt.

Question 11

How did the work of Louis Pasteur help improve the quality of life for people during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 11

It led to new ways to fight disease.

Question 12

Which most directly led to the rise of mass entertainment during the late 1800s?

Answer 12

increased leisure time

Question 13

Which did not prompt European imperialism in the late nineteenth century?

Answer 13

abolition of slavery

Question 14

Which was not used to justify European imperialism in the late nineteenth century?

Answer 14

the philosophy of Karl Marx

Question 15

Which was an impact of European imperialism on the people of Africa?

Answer 15

loss of natural resources

Question 16

Which led the British government to shut down the East India Company and rule India directly?

Answer 16

the Sepoy Mutiny

Question 17

How did Britain seek to correct its balance of trade with China?

Answer 17

selling opium

Question 18

Which was a goal of Sun Yat-sen in calling for revolution in China?

Answer 18

creating a democratic republic

Question 19

Which was an argument for Japanese imperial expansion?

Answer 19

the need for natural resources

Question 20

Which belief did many Americans use to justify the U.S. takeover of the Philippines?

Answer 20

It was their duty to civilize the Filipinos.

Question 21

To which reform movement did Frederick Douglass devote his life?

Answer 21

abolition

Question 22

Which was not a reason for urban planning?

Answer 22

collective bargaining