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1. The invention of spinning and weaving machinery increased the number of workers in the textile industry in Europe because

A. laws prohibited women and children from working with machinery

B. the demand for goods increased as goods become cheaper to produce

C. the unions required that more workers be hired to maintain the machines

D. the early textile machines could not produce goods as efficiently as hand labor

2. The agricultural revolution was essential to Britain’s industrialization because

a. It greatly increased cotton cultivation

b. Many of the resulting new inventions could be harassed to industrial uses.

c. It freed up the labor needed to work in factories

d. It destroyed the domestic labor system, making it necessary to find another way of producing goods.

3. The people who benefited LEAST from the industrial revolution were

a. Factory owners

b. Merchants

c. Workers

d. landowners

4. An important social aspect of the early part of the Industrial Revolution in England was the

A. elimination of the class system

B. urbanization of factory workers

C. acceptance of dissenting religious groups

D. development of government-funded housing and medical care programs

5. In Western Europe, which development was the cause of the other three?

A. the existence of severe air and water pollution

B. the increase in the size and number of cities

C. fewer people living and working on farms

D. the Industrial Revolution

6. In Europe, which group benefited MOST from the Industrial Revolution?

A. factory workers

B. rural farmers

C. middle class

D. clergy

7. This picture shows what problem of the factory system?

a. Child labor

b. Unfair wages for women

c. The lack of skilled workers

d. Unsafe working conditions

8. This graph shows

a. Global warming

b. The effect of emissions on the environment

c. The amount of emissions produced by industry

d. An alarming increase in coal emissions since 1995

9. Which innovation brought together all aspects of the Industrial Revolution, created demand for a series of related products, AND facilitated both supply and transportation?

a. The steamboat

b. The railroad

c. Canal building

d. Steel bridges

10. Laissez-faire thinkers supported

a. Free trade with no government influence

b. Child labor controlled by the government

c. Minimum wages set by the government and factory owners

d. Better working conditions for the factory workers