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Prior to 1500, Europeans were already outpacing Asian countries in manufacturing and industrial development. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The British countryside contained all the raw materials necessary for industrial production, such as coal, iron, and cotton. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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British industrialization was facilitated by the lack of internal tariff barriers in the country. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Population growth in Britain and Europe increased the demand for consumer goods. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The British aristocracy found entrepreneurship to be socially unacceptable. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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A minority of Britain’s early entrepreneurs were Protestant dissenters, such as Calvinists and Quakers. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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By 1812, one spinner could produce the same amount of cotton thread that 200 spinners had in 1760. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The fact that British manufacturers relied on cheap American cotton helped to perpetuate slavery in the United States. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The iron industry exploded when it was discovered how to smelt iron with charcoal. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The first modern railway train, "the Rocket," made its premiere in 1830. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The European governments on the continent took a less active role in supporting domestic industry than Britain had. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Manufacturers in Britain preferred to hire men, because they provided cheap labor, rather than women and children. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In the 1840s, the British military turned down 90% of their urban volunteers who worked in factories because they did not meet health standards. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Trade unions were illegal in Britain until 1824. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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As working class consciousness grew in strength, the power of the peasantry and traditional artisan groups declined. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Industrialization and urbanization had no effect on the rural landscape. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Newcomers to cities often preferred to live in areas with people from the same rural region, resulting in the creation of separate identities. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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"Miasma" was a contagious disease that spread rapidly within working class districts of the newly expanding cities. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In Britain, one out of three people still died from contagious diseases by 1850. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Differentiation, or the idea of a division of labor and separate areas for different tasks, affected both the domestic and industrial worlds. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The inventors and entrepreneurs of the British Industrial Revolution were practical men rather than insightful scientific thinkers. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Trade unions, which arose after 1800, were the result of two main influences: the old tradition of artisan craft guilds, and the new sense of working class solidarity which arose from shared experience in the factories. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Hard Times, written by Charles Dickens in 1854, was an expose of the horrors of child labor in cotton mills. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Because of the pressures of the Industrial Revolution, most working class families were unable to adjust to the new economic conditions of Europe, and the working class family largely collapsed as an institution. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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