Modern industrialization had its start in the following nation:
The United States
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
All of the following were conducive to industrialization in Britain EXCEPT:
A low rate of unemployment
Reserves of coal for power
A well-developed banking system
A thriving merchant class
The following industry mechanized very early and was the first to successfully do so:
Railroads
Shipping
Munitions
Textiles
All of the following technological innovations were important to mechanization EXCEPT:
The spinning jenny
The water frame
The spinning mule
The static shuttle
All of the following men contributed significantly to the development of mechanical power EXCEPT:
Denis Papin
Thomas Newcomen
Thomas Savery
Thomas Edison
All of the following contributed to the development of the factory system EXCEPT:
Dependence on large machinery
Large numbers of agricultural workers who wanted to relocate to urban settings.
The need to transport fuel and raw materials to centers of production
Greater efficiency in locating many machines together.
The first practical steam-powered riverboat went from:
New York to Albany
Liverpool to London
Paris to Berlin
Vienna to Berlin
The first man to import industrialism into the United States toward the end of the eighteenth century was:
Samuel Slater
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Edison
James Dewey
Between 1870 and 1914, German production of steel accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:
Were able to develop heavier, more expensive steel than that produced by Great Britain
Had doubled that of Great Britain by 1914
Went from almost nothing to equal British production by the year 1893
Utilized more up-to-date production methods rather than the expensive trial and error exercises in Great Britain
The first widespread use of electricity was:
To power cable cars after it was found that a sufficient supply of coal was too heavy for the small motors.
For light bulbs, eliminating the need for the very dangerous gas lights of the Victorian era
For parlor tricks, such as delivering a mild shock when shaking hands
In the realm of communications, to send telegraphs
All of the following have been associated with the invention of the automobile EXCEPT:
Gottlieb Daimler
Robert Peel
Karl Benz
Siegfried Marcus
From about 1700 to 1914, industrialized nations experienced significant population growth for all of the reasons below EXCEPT:
There were more jobs available, so more people had resources
Agricultural improvements led to a greater supply of food
Scientific advances in medicine resulted in a lower mortality rate from disease or infection
Life in cities was safer than in the countryside because of the lower rate of accidental deaths
All of the following is true of Robert Owen, a factory owner in the north of England, EXCEPT:
He formed an ideal, Utopian community in the United States and lived out his life peacefully in New Hampshire
He led a movement to establish a trade union.
He called for a national strike of all trade unions
He demonstrated that better living conditions for workers resulted in higher profits.
Two patterns characterize the evolution of imperialism-colonialism in the period of 1750-1900: the first pattern was __by European countries.
the rise of bureaucratic corruption and mismanagement
the rise of independent clients states as part of a commonwealth
the pursuit of a new imperialism against the decentralizing Ottoman Empire
the rise of indirect territorial imperialism-colonialism
A system in which people from one country establish a more or less elaborate administrative system in a conquered overseas territory is referred to as _________
colonialism
communism
a commonwealth
a mandate
By 1750, the chief European rival competing against British commercial monopoly in India were the _________
Dutch
French
Portuguese
Spanish
In 1757, the battle of _________effectively eliminated the French threat in the subcontinent and consolidated Great Britain's supremacy in India
Calcutta
Palashi
Bengal
Plassey
What British policy softened the blow of conquest?
the overthrow of local monarchies
importing goods from European nations
exporting goods to European nations
non-interference with Indian customs and institutions
The period of direct British rule in India following the failure of the First War of Independence, or the Great Rebellion, is known as the British _________.
Punjab
Maj
Assam
Raj
In 1885, the Indian National Congress, the precursor of India's present Congress Party, was first convened with the ongoing mission of _________.
winning greater autonomy for India within the structure of the British Empire
seeking India's immediate independence from Great Britain
expanding British control over Indian affairs
preventing India from joining the Commonwealth of Nations
Australia began its history under British control as a _________.
religious exile colony
resort colony
penal colony
surf colony
Important early commercial interests in Australia included all but one of the following:
wool
cacao
gold
silver
Which of the following does not describe Australia's demographic and economic development in the latter half of the nineteenth century?
growth of the native aboriginal population
gold-rush-based immigration
thriving wool and gold export business
indentured agricultural labor by Pacific Islanders
In 1900, Australia finally adopted a federal constitution, making the country the second fully autonomous "dominion" after _________.
New Zealand
South Africa
Canada
Ireland
After the failure in 1815 of Napoleon's imperial schemes in both Egypt and Europe, _________became the undisputed leading empire in the world.
Great Britain
Prussia
Belgium
Russia
Unable to repay the enormous debt incurred from the French-led construction of the _________in 1869
Corinthian Canal
Corinthian Canal
Suez Canal
Hormuz Canal
Which of the following nations was not an autonomous Ottoman province ruled by its own dynasty of beys or lords?
Algeria
Tunisia
Egypt
Malta
European colonialism on the coast of West Africa after 1885 was an outgrowth of the traditional _________.
international slave trade
slave trade
trade fort system
debt bondage
Heirs to the Portuguese spice trade, the _________were the world's undisputed naval power from 1650 to 1750.
French
British
Dutch
Spanish
The Spanish built their first trade fort in the Philippines at_________, as a place from which to trade with China after conquering Mexico from the Aztecs.
Mindanao
Visaya
Manila
Luzon
French imperial and colonial involvement in Indochina began in 1858 under _________.
Louis-Philippe
Napoleon III
Napoleon I
Louis XVIII incorrect