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Why is the Industrial Revolution a revolution?
It is a very fast change
It is a radical change
It is a slow and radical change
It is a fast and radical change
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What was NOT a reason the Industrial Revolution started in Britain?
A lot of natural resources
Changes in agriculture led to an agricultural surpuls.
People in Britain were smarter than in the rest of Europe
They had many harbour.
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Put in the right order
Spinning Jenny - Waterframe - Steam engine
Steam engine - waterframe - spinning Jenny
Spinning Jenny - Steam engine - Waterframe
Waterframe - Spinning Jenny - Steam engine
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Who adapted the Steam Engine for general use?
Robert Owens
James Watt
James Hargreaves
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Why was the invention of the steam locomotive important?
Now you could travel easily to your work.
Now factories could be placed anywhere
Now more people could live in the city
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Industrialisation lead to a decline in agricultural work, but a growth in industrial and .......
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Discribe how people lived in an industrial city
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Which classes did the new class system have?
Lord and serfs
Employer and employee
Employer and serfs
Factory owners and lords
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What is capitalism?
An economic system in which making profit and private ownership are essential.
An economic system that is all about good working conditions for the workers.
An economic system in which sharing profit and collective ownership is essential.
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Why is Robert Owen famous?
He introduced social laws.
He improved living conditions of his employees.
He set up the first trade unions.
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What did socialist want? (more answers possible)
focus on making everybody more equal.
regulate the capitalistic free market
There should be laws for protecting labours
The government should not be involved with the economy
Making a lot of money is the most important.
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What was a big weapon for trade unions to use?
Striking
Using violence
Distroy all machines in factories.
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The 'Children's law of van Houten' is an example of
a social issue
socialism
a social law
capitalism
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What is white supremacy?
The view that white Europeans are better than other people.
The fact that white Europeans are better than other people
The white Europeans who rule over Europe.
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What happened on the Berlin Conference?
African countries divided the African continent.
European countries divided Africa among themselves.
European countries decided that African countries should take care of themselves.
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The cultivation system in the Dutch Indies was used to
get as much profit as possible out of the Dutch-Indies.
control large parts of the Dutch Indies
make sure that the VOC could make as much profit as possible.
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What was the bloodiest colonial war in Dutch colonial history?
The Java war
The Aceh war
The Great war
The Boer war.
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What were the effects of imperialism? (More answers possible)
schools with European and christian values.
monoculture in the economy
Gave rich natives a chance to study in Europe
Made sure that local values were respected.