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Second Industrial Revolution
Test Description: Unit 2 Fall semester
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in the late 1700s?
A
United States
B
Japan
C
Germany
D
Britain
2) What period of the late 1800's can be best described as a a period of new growth in manufacturing, reliance on electricity and petroleum, and mass prodution and stronger steel?
A
Scientific Revolution
B
The Electric Slide
C
Second Industrial Revolution
D
Industrial Revolution
3) How did Germany become an important industrial power during the nineteenth century?
A
All of them
B
Germany acquired territory rich in iron ore
C
Bismark unified the German lands by going ro war with France
D
Scientists and engineers developed many inventions
4) Why was Wilhelm II determined to build up the German army and navy?
A
He was tired of being invaded by France.
B
He felt threatened by the Russians.
C
He wanted to prove that Germany was a great world power.
5) One reason that Germany and England were able to industrialize relatively quickly was that they had plenty of __________.
A
silver
B
wood
C
gold
D
Coal
6) Industrial and technological advances often improve the standard of living. Which innovation was introduced during the Second Industrial Revolution?
A
steel plow
B
steam engine
C
cotton gin
D
automobile
7) What is needed for a country to industrialize?
A
all of them
B
capital for investing
C
individuals with comercial vision
D
abundant natural resources
8) What is Louis Pasteur known for?
A
What is Louis Pasteur known for?
B
building the wireless telegraph and radio
C
developing a process to kill germs in food
D
inventing the telephone
9) Workers are responsible for the production of goods in a business, but business owners exploit their workers. Workers should revolt, take over the businesses, and set up a government to run the economy on their behalf. Which political thinker would
A
Keir Hardie
B
Robert Owen
C
Karl Marx
D
Adam Smith
10) Who argued that individuals should own and control businesses and make all the decisions about them?
A
Robert Owen
B
Adam Smith
C
Keir Hardie
D
Karl Marx
11) Who controls property and the distribution of income in a capitalist system?
A
the capital city leaders
B
individuals
C
government
D
your teacher
12) What are socialism, communism, and capitalism?
A
methods of organizing industry and international trade
B
economic and political theories that developed to cope with the Great Depression
C
economic and political theories developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
D
philosophies developed in ancient Greece and Rome
13) Marx and Engels thought that all history was the history of class struggles. They believed that __________.
A
gradual reforms would improve society
B
the bourgeoisie would revolt
C
the bourgeoisie would eventually control the proletariat
D
the proletariat would overthrow the bourgeoisie
14) Adam Smith applied Enlightenment ideas of reason to his economic philosophy of laissez-faire and a free market economy. Which statement below best explains his concept of natural law in the government’s role in the economic lives of its citizens?
A
The government should control trade.
B
The government stays out of business regulation to let the people operate as they please.
C
Agriculture based on tenant farming and serfdom.
D
High taxes for the poor and low taxes for the rich.
15) The creation of labor unions during the 2nd industrial revolution was caused by what?
A
Employers wanting to revolt against workers.
B
Manufacturing sales were falling behind Agricultural sales.
C
Many small towns were beginning to embrace despotism as a means of government
D
Factories were in awful working conditions due to Laissez-faire policies
16) What caused workers to unite and create labor unions?
A
To go back to cheaper primitive production methods.
B
Purchasing factories from the owners.
C
To help keep workers safe from unsanitary, corrupt, and dangerous working conditions.
D
Purchasing factories from the owners.
17) Look at the thesis statement below. Thesis statement: During The Second Industrial Revolution multiple inventions were created that improved the quality of life for people. Which answer below supports this thesis statement?
A
More automobile production increased pollution in cities
B
More social interaction after dark with the invention of the indoor electric lamp
C
Industrialization caused overcrowded and diseased cities
D
Factories nearly eliminated the need for manual farm labor and many farm workers lost their jobs
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