Name: ______Date: ______Hour: ____

Review – Industrial Revolution (Chapter 25)

  1. What was the Industrial Revolution?

2. Which of the following was a result of the agricultural revolution?

3. What were the three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?

4.What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurrred in 19th-century Britain and elsewhere in western Europe?

5.How did landowners and aristocrats view wealthy members of the middle class?

6. What did Britain do in order to keep industrial secrets from the United States?

7. What was the benefit of being a stockholder in a corporation?

8. What is the laissez-faire policy?

9. What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?

10. Which of the following is an example of a reform movement?

  1. In what way did the Agricultural Revolution pave the way for the Industrial Revolution?

Use the “Geography Skillbuilder” on Pg. 730 to answer the following questions.

  1. In what part of the country were the first railroad tracks built? By 1890, what other part of the country was densely covered by railroad tracks?
  1. In what direction did railroad tracks help people move across the country?

Name: ______Date: ______Hour: ____

Review – Industrial Revolution (Chapter 25)

1. What was the Industrial Revolution?

increased output of machine-made goods that began in England during the 18th-century

2. Which of the following was a result of the agricultural revolution?

Many small farmers became tenant farmers or moved to cities.

3. What were the three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?

land, labor, capital

4. What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurrred in 19th-century Britain and elsewhere in western Europe?

Industrialization

5. How did landowners and aristocrats view wealthy members of the middle class?

looked down upon

6. What did Britain do in order to keep industrial secrets from the United States?

forbade engineers, mechanics, and toolmakers from leaving the country

7. What was the benefit of being a stockholder in a corporation?

not personally responsible for its debts

8. What is the laissez-faire policy?

a policy that let owners of industry set working conditions without government interference

  1. What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?

Unions

10. Which of the following is an example of a reform movement?

abolition of slavery
women's rights
public education

11. In what way did the Agricultural Revolution pave the way for the Industrial Revolution?

It led to population growth.
It increased food supplies.
It caused farmers to lose land and seek other work.

Use the “Geography Skillbuilder” on Pg. 730 to answer the following questions.

  1. In what part of the country were the first railroad tracks built? By 1890, what other part of the country was densely covered by railroad tracks?

East……the Midwest.

  1. In what direction did railroad tracks help people move across the country?

Westward