Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

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

The mining industry in England expanded rapidly with industrialization due to the increased demand for:

The Industrial Revolution caused changes in which of the following areas?

The British government,concerned with working conditions in the early 1800s,held a series of hearings and upon learning of conditions that existed in British factories:

The development of the steam engine decisively transformed the nineteenth-century world _________ was one of its many applications.

What changes occurred in the second phase of the Industrial Revolution?

Most of the labor force in Russia was made up of _________,who remained bound to the land and did not profit from their labor until 1861.

Direct communication between the United States and Europe was not possible until:

Continental Europe lagged behind Great Britain in industrializing due primarily to:

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:

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

Railways were constructed almost entirely without aid of machinery.

The Great Famine of 1845-1849:

The nineteenth-century banking revolution was accompanied by scandal; the greatest of the banks involved was the Péreire brothers' bank:

As a result of the Industrial Revolution,people of the nineteenth century viewed one another through the lens of:

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

Of all the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution,perhaps the most revolutionary was in the new forms of energy that were discovered.

Most prostitutes were women who were trying to manage during a period of unemployment,rather than professional sex workers.

While the housing in the cities did not allow for gardens,families were able to gain access to good,cheap food at city markets,thanks to the increasingly inexpensive transportation systems.

Only after a series of factory acts was the employment of children in mines and mills under the age of eighteen made illegal.