The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 17: Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age

True or False Quiz

1
Prior to 1500, Europeans were already outpacing Asian countries in manufacturing and industrial development.
A)True
B)False
2
The British countryside contained all the raw materials necessary for industrial production, such as coal, iron, and cotton.
A)True
B)False
3
British industrialization was facilitated by the lack of internal tariff barriers in the country.
A)True
B)False
4
Population growth in Britain and Europe increased the demand for consumer goods.
A)True
B)False
5
The British aristocracy found entrepreneurship to be socially unacceptable.
A)True
B)False
6
Very few of Britain's early entrepreneurs were Protestant dissenters, such as Calvinists and Quakers.
A)True
B)False
7
By 1812, one spinner could produce the same amount of cotton thread that 200 spinners had in 1760.
A)True
B)False
8
The fact that British manufacturers relied on cheap American cotton helped to perpetuate slavery in the United States.
A)True
B)False
9
The iron industry exploded when it was discovered how to smelt iron with charcoal.
A)True
B)False
10
The first modern railway train, "the Rocket," made its premiere in 1830.
A)True
B)False
11
The European governments on the continent took a less active role in supporting domestic industry than Britain had.
A)True
B)False
12
Manufacturers in Britain preferred to hire men, because they provided cheap labor, rather than women and children.
A)True
B)False
13
In the 1840s, the British military turned down 90% of volunteers from some urban areas because they did not meet health standards.
A)True
B)False
14
Trade unions were illegal in Britain until 1824.
A)True
B)False
15
As working class consciousness grew in strength, the power of the peasantry and traditional artisan groups declined.
A)True
B)False
16
Industrialization and urbanization had no effect on the rural landscape.
A)True
B)False
17
Newcomers to cities often preferred to live in areas with people from the same rural region, resulting in the creation of separate identities.
A)True
B)False
18
"Miasma" was a contagious disease that spread rapidly within working class districts of the newly expanding cities.
A)True
B)False
19
In Britain, one out of three people still died from contagious diseases by 1850.
A)True
B)False
20
Differentiation, or the idea of a division of labor and separate areas for different tasks, affected both the domestic and industrial worlds.
A)True
B)False
21
The inventors and entrepreneurs of the British Industrial Revolution were generally practical men rather than insightful scientific thinkers.
A)True
B)False
22
Trade unions, which arose after 1800, were the result of two main influences: the old tradition of artisan craft guilds, and the new sense of working-class solidarity, which arose from shared experience in the factories.
A)True
B)False
23
Because of the pressures of the Industrial Revolution, most working-class families were unable to adjust to the new economic conditions of Europe, and the working-class family largely collapsed as an institution.
A)True
B)False
Sherman: The West in the World, Fourth Edition
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