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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which is NOT an element of Free Enterprise?
Profits
Controlled by central authority
Competition
Buy and sell freely
- 2. Multiple ChoiceInvented the Cotton GinEli WhitneyHenry ClayFrancis LowellJohn Deere
- 3. Multiple ChoiceLed to a canal boom in the United States thanks to the success New York hadCentral CanalErie CanalWabash CanalOhio Canal
- 4. Multiple ChoiceIn what country did the Industrial Revolution begin?United StatesFranceGreat Britain
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWho invented the steel plow?Cyrus McCormickJohn DeereSamuel SlaterRobert Fulton
- 6. Multiple ChoiceHow did the Agricultural Revolution impact farmers?New farming methods required more workers on the farm.New farming methods produced bigger harvests with less farmers.
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhich 2 natural resources were the backbone of the Industrial Revolution?wood and peatoil and natural gascoal and ironcotton and tobacco
- 8. Multiple ChoiceEngland is an island. Why was this an advantage during the Industrial Revolution?It wasn't an advantage.It made it more difficult for other countries to steal England's ideas.England has many ports and rivers which allow easier worldwide trade.England had tropical weather, which allowed more crops to be grown.
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe system in which the government owns and controls the means of production, such as mines and factories, is called?fascismsocialismcapitalismmercantilism
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWho designed the first efficient steam engine?James HargreavesJohn KayRichard ArkwrightJames Watt
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?Low wagesSafe working conditionsDangerous working conditionsWidespread pollution
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes industrialization?
nations began to rely on one another for trade of various goods and resources after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
smaller nations needed assistance from their larger neighbors, so they formed trade alliances
more and more people began to move to cities, away from rural areas
advancement in technology to produce goods on a larger scale and a reliance on manufacturing of goods instead of individuals producing goods themselves
- 13. Multiple ChoiceThe process of taking over and fencing off land formally owned by peasant farmers.communismenclosure movementutilitarianismlaissez-faire
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWho wrote Wealth of Nations and supported Laissez-Faire economics?Adam SmithDavid RicardoThomas MalthusJohn Wesley
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich scientific theory was suggested by Charles Darwin?Plate TectonicsHeliocentrismEvolutionRelativity
- 16. Multiple Choice
memorized the plans to a steam powered textile mill and brought those plans to the US from Britain
Samuel Slater
Eli Whitney
Francis Cabott Lowell
Moses Brown
- 17. Multiple Choice
An arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product.
Factory System
Lowell Mills
Assembly Line
Cottage Industry
- 18. Multiple Choice
the right to vote
suffrage
urbanization
annex
disenfranchisement
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThis handsome man came up with the first working electric light bulb...Thomas EdisonAlfred NobelLouis PasteurHenry Odrechowski (he's 2 but he smart)
- 20. Multiple ChoiceHe created new vaccines and a process for making milk safe that was named after himself...Alfred NobelLouis SullivanThomas EdisonLouis Pasteur
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhich Italian inventor created the radio?Charles "Lucky" LucianoGuglielmo MarconiCarlo GambinoRigatoni Spaghetti Ferrari
- 22. Multiple ChoiceManifest Destiny was the belief that...It was the United States' God given right to expand to the Pacific Ocean.Native peoples in the United States should be treated with respect.The United States should respect the land claims of countries.All people in the United States should have the right to vote.
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following contributed to the westward expansion of the United States?European warships attacked the eastern seaboard, forcing citizens to move westward for safety.Most of the land east of the Mississippi River was not suitable for farming.Many Americans felt it was their right and duty to move westward.The standard of living on the Pacific Coast was very high, so many people wanted to move there.
- 24. Multiple Choicethe production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audienceMass CulturePsychologySuffrageZionismSuffrage
- 25. Multiple Choicethe study of the human mind and human behaviorPsychologyRadioactivityChartist MovementDominionChartist Movement
- 26. Multiple Choicethe legal or social separation of people of different races.SegregationEmancipation Proclamationtheory of evolutionsecedeDominion
- 27. Multiple Choicea declaration issued by U.S.president Abraham Lincoln in 1863, stating that all slaves in the Confederate states were freeEmancipation ProclamationSegregationPsychologymanifest DestinyAborigine
- 28. Multiple Choicea 19th-century British movement in which members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all men.Chartist Movementanti -semitismDreyfus AffairZionismSecede
- 29. Multiple Choicea controversy in France in the 1890s, centering on the trial and imprisonment of a Jewish army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been falsely accused of selling military secrets to GermanyDreyfus AffairDominionManifest DestinyAnti-semitismU.S. Civil War
- 30. Multiple Choiceprejudice against Jews.anti -semitismMaorizionismAborigineassembly line
- 31. Multiple Choicea member of a Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand around ad.800MaoriAborigineJewsPomogromsPsychology
- 32. Multiple Choicekey leader in the Zionist movementTheodor HerzlAbraham LincolnGuglielmo MarconiIvan PavlovThird Republic
- 33. Multiple Choiceexperienced one of the worst famines of modern historyIrelandMexicoAustraliaNew ZealandUnited States
- 34. Multiple ChoiceThe journey of Native Americans from the east to lands in Oklahoma is known as TheTrail of TearsPomgromsZionismZionismSecede
- 35. Multiple Choiceteacher of deaf students who invented the telephone in his spare timeAlexander Graham BellGuglielmo MarconiHenry FordWilbur and Orville WrightPsychology
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