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The Second Industrial Revolution, 1820–1900
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1. Britain’s Factory Act of 1833
2. Which of the following statements is true about the conditions of the working class in Great Britain around 1850?
3. All of the following were important industrial cities in England EXCEPT
4. Which of the following was the only European country to suffer a declining population in the 19th century?
5. Which of the following characteristics did the putting-out and factory systems share?
6. All of the following are strong indicators of the success of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain EXCEPT
7. "Industrialization in the textile industry resulted in"
8. In his book National System of Political Economy (1841), German journalist Friedrich List
9. Which of the following does NOT describe Britain’s enclosure movement?
10. The Combination Acts of 1799
11. The Mines Act of 1842
12. All of the following were consequences of the development of the railroad EXCEPT
13. James Watt’s improvement of the original steam engine in 1769 was significant because
14. Which of the following agricultural innovations is Charles Townshend most frequently associated with?
15. Which of the following was NOT a factor that contributed to Britain’s Industrial Revolution?
16. Edwin Chadwick’s Report on the Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
17. Eighteenth-century inventions by James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, and Edmund Cartwright led to
18. Which 19th-century British handicraft workers protested against the Industrial Revolution by smashing machines that they felt put them out of work?
19. Held in 1851, London’s Crystal Palace Exhibition
20. The creation of what customs union among the German states in 1834 facilitated industrialization and became the basis of the political unification of the German states?
21. The 19th-century Chartists
22. The population of Europe almost doubled between 1750 and 1850 mainly as a result of
23. In 19th-century Britain, who among the following were NOT members of the middle class?
24. As a consequence of mass-produced cotton textiles,
25. Which of the following countries was the most urbanized in 1850, with more than 50 percent of the population living in towns and cities?