Unit X Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What is the biggest resource that caused great Britain to strive during the Industrial Rev?

Answer 1

water

Question 2

What did the luddites movement lead to?

Answer 2

unions

Question 3

What did unions achieve?

Answer 3

Workers rights

Question 4

What is Owen do and was he successful?

Answer 4

consolidated a trade union but failed

Question 5

Who are chartists

Answer 5

British workers seeking political democracy and reform

Question 6

What did chartists want?

Answer 6

universal male suffrage
no property qualification for parliament
establish more equity in districts
secret ballots
house of commons salaries
reduction of work hours

Question 7

What did the Saddler’s commission do?

Answer 7

improved the working conditions

Question 8

What did the factory act of 1833 do?

Answer 8

limited the workday of children
prohibited hiring kids under the age of 9
elementary schools requirements

Question 9

Who wrote “The Condition of the Working Class in England”?

Answer 9

Engels

Question 10

How did Parliament deal with machine breaking?

Answer 10

they made it a capital crime

Question 11

What were the elements of the first Industrial Revolution?

Answer 11

agriculture, steam, coal, iron

Question 12

What were the elements of the second revolution?

Answer 12

steel, electricity, oil, chemicals

Question 13

What was the importance of steel?

Answer 13

it was stronger and lighter

Question 14

What factors slowed down the continent from industrialization?

Answer 14

War, money, lack of people

Question 15

Who believed the middle class is ruthlessly exploiting the working class?

Answer 15

Engels

Question 16

What movement in Agriculture spurred the Industrial revolution?

Answer 16

enclosure movement

Question 17

The term proletarianization refers to

Answer 17

labor becoming a commodity vulnerable to the marketplace

Question 18

In most of Europe in the mid-1800s, most employed women worked where?

Answer 18

outside of factories

Question 19

What was an economic consequence of the railways?

Answer 19

emphasis on consumer goods

Question 20

The transition to becoming a wage laborer, after working as an artisan, entailed a loss of what

Answer 20

Autonomy

Question 21

The shared elements in early socialist thought were the beliefs that

Answer 21

free market could not produce enough goods

society should be organized as a community rather than a collection of individuals

Question 22

The Chartists lost most of their support when

Answer 22

Economic prosperity returned to England

Question 23

The biggest factor in changing the structure of the working class family was

Answer 23

The mechanization of weaving

Question 24

How did Britain differ from the Continent?

Answer 24

it practiced free trade and the Continent used protective tariffs

Question 25

The conclusions of Malthus and Ricardo relative to economic affairs suggested that?

Answer 25

liberals were right to reject government interference in economic affairs because it could do no good.

Question 26

Robert Owen’s only success was the?:

Answer 26

organization of consumers’ cooperatives.

Question 27

During the century following 1832, the MAIN objective of the Reform Acts passed by the British Parliament was the?

Answer 27

extension of suffrage.

Question 28

The group that gained most political power as a result of the Reform Bill of 1832 was the?:

Answer 28

middle-class people of the towns.