Study guide for final 12 / 16 / 24

Question 1

What was the natural resource that provided fuel for industrialization?

Answer 1

coal

Question 2

Which social class had the most entrepreneurs that drove indust. rev.?

Answer 2

middle class (bourgeoisie)

Question 3

which eco. rev. mad possible the dynamic pop. growth that fed the demand for workers?

Answer 3

agri. rev.

Question 4

which fin. institution, founded in 1694, provided much capital for indust. rev.?

Answer 4

bank of Eng.

Question 5

Which innovation by Watt applied to machines in factories in the 1780s, was the cornerstone of industrial rev.?

Answer 5

steam engine

Question 6

Who dev. the puddling furnace for purifying iron while creating machines that could mold iron into any shape?

Answer 6

Henry Cort

Question 7

What was the most important innovation of transportation rev.?

Answer 7

railroad

Question 8

which invention of Robert Fulton allowed rivers to become 2-way arteries?

Answer 8

steamboats

Question 9

what did John McAdam dev. for a better way to travel on land?

Answer 9

hard-surface road

Question 10

who dev. the first locomotive, The Rocket, in 1828?

Answer 10

George Stephenson

Question 11

What transportation innovation is Duke of Bridgewater credited with?

Answer 11

canals

Question 12

which 1833 law outlawed child labor for children under 9 in textile industry and reduced hours for older children?

Answer 12

factory act

Question 13

which highly controversial tariff was enacted in 1815 to enrich landowners?

Answer 13

corn law

Question 14

which Brit. law really disgruntled workers in 1799 when it made labor unions illegal?

Answer 14

combination acts

Question 15

which 1842 law prohibited all boys and girls under the age of 10 from working underground?

Answer 15

mines act

Question 16

which influential body inspired reforms after concluding that working conditions in factories were deplorable?

Answer 16

saddler commission

Question 17

which 2 isms took the proletarian view in response to the exploitation of workers during industrial rev?

Answer 17

socialism and communism

Question 18

which group of disgruntled Eng. workers smashed machinery in factories in protest of industrial and their lost jobs?

Answer 18

Luddites

Question 19

Which Scot. industrialist formed the first labor union in Eng. in 1830s?

Answer 19

Robert Owen

Question 20

Which movement demanded universal male suffrage?

Answer 20

chartists

Question 21

Which socialist writer accused the middle class of “mass murder” in the condition of working class in England (1844)?

Answer 21

Friedrich Engels

Question 22

Which western city became the epicenter of industrial rev in Eng?

Answer 22

Manchester

Question 23

What places became, in effect, industrial prisons for workers who were unemployed?

Answer 23

Poor houses

Question 24

What cast-iron and glass structure became a symbol of Britains’s Industrial dominance in 1851?

Answer 24

Crystal Palace

Question 25

which was the new German customs union in the 1830s that created a free trade zone among member states

Answer 25

Zollverein

Question 26

which French bank pooled the resources of many investors for the construction of industrial projects?

Answer 26

Credit Mobilier

Question 27

Which was the most important reason why Continental Europe lagged behind England industrially during the early-19th center?

Answer 27

Napoleonic Wars

Question 28

In which industry did the Industrial Revolution begin in?

Answer 28

Textile industry