Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

One consequence of the industrialization of Europe was its detrimental effect on the environment.This was first noted in its effect on air quality,as typified by Coketown,the fictional city in the novel Hard Times by:

Balzac believed the changes of the French Revolution and industrialization had merely replaced an old aristocracy with a new one: a materialistic middle class.

The Industrial Revolution led to the development of a great many capital-intensive enterprises,new ways of organizing people's labor,and the rapid growth of cities.

How did changing textile industry technologies affect society?

The Industrial Revolution intensified human labor much more often than it eased it.

One of the greatest obstacles to freely buying and selling land and the commercialization of agriculture in nineteenth-century Europe was:

One of the developments that hastened the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine,originally developed to remove water from mines by:

The Crédit Mobilier,founded in 1852,was:

Railways were constructed almost entirely without aid of machinery.

In 1860,the largest single occupational category in Great Britain was the agricultural laborer.

The "angel in the house" referred to:

What was the role of working women in the Industrial Revolution,and what impact did it have on their lives?

One of the most important preconditions of industrialization that was best established in Great Britain was:

The Industrial Revolution caused changes in all of the following areas EXCEPT:

Middle-class "respectability" required:

Even with the interconnectedness of industry,wherein an improvement in one area led to improvements in other areas,there was one dual foundation on which the rest was built; that foundation was:

There were many inventions that improved textile manufacturing in the 1700s,but the first of these was the "flying shuttle," which was invented by:

What social,economic,and natural preconditions for industrialization made Britain the home of the Industrial Revolution?

The 'angel in the house' refers to the Victorian ideal that a respectable middle-class household should be suffused with a religious spirit.

By the mid-nineteenth century,the world economy had divided into two major groups: