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Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

After the "British Miracle", other areas that experienced industrialization by 1900 included all of the following EXCEPT:

  1. Austria-Hungry

  2. Russia

  3. Germany

  4. Japan

  5. United States
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A Correct answer
Explanation

This is a duplicate of the previous question; Austria-Hungary is the correct answer as it was less industrialized than the other listed nations.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

Which of these BEST describes one of the most influential philosophers Voltaire? 

  1. He proposed that the best governments had separation of and checks on their powers to limit them

  2. He supports the concepts that the general will or desires of the majority, should determine government actions

  3. He argued for equal access to education for both men and women

  4. He compiled works by the leading scholars of the time into the Encyclopedia

  5. He used satire and wit to denounce prejudice, superstition and religious intolerance
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E Correct answer
Explanation

Voltaire was a leading Enlightenment writer who famously used satire, wit, and philosophical tales to champion freedom of speech and religion while attacking religious fanaticism and intolerance.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

Women were involved in bettering industrial societies by 1900 in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

  1. Founding settlement houses and community centers to serve urban working population

  2. Achieving the right to vote to better their working conditions and achieve equal pay

  3. Joining the abolitionist cause to encourage the end of slavery

  4. Leading increasingly radical suffrage campaigns

  5. Organizing groups such as the First International Congress for Women's Rights
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B Correct answer
Explanation

By 1900, women had not yet achieved the right to vote in most major industrial societies, making option B the correct exception. Women did, however, participate in settlement houses, abolitionism, and early suffrage campaigns.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

All contributed to the defeat of Napoleon except:

  1. The Battle of Austerlitz with Austria

  2. The failure of the Continental System

  3. The invasion of Russia in 1812

  4. The Spanish Resistance and its guerilla warfare

  5. The formation of the Quadruple Alliance
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The Battle of Austerlitz was a major victory for Napoleon, not a defeat. The other options listed represent significant factors that contributed to his eventual downfall.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

New industrial urban centers were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

  1. Rapid population growth doubled and sometimes tripled or quadrupled the size of cities in one century

  2. Tenement housing usually was the only option for the working class

  3. Lack of sanitation was a major problem leading to problem such as the rapid spread of cholera

  4. Cities lacked adequate access to education and police protection

  5. Life spans for those working in cities were longer than those enjoyed by rural farm laborers
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Life expectancy in early industrial cities was notoriously low due to poor sanitation, overcrowding, and disease. Rural life, while difficult, generally offered better health outcomes than the squalor of early industrial urban centers.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

Which of these BEST describes the Industrial Revolution?

  1. Transition from an agrarian, handicraft economy to one dominated by machine manufacture

  2. Focusing on machine manufacture at the expense of agriculture

  3. A political movement that stressed urban renewal and rights for factory workers

  4. Transition from relying on natural resources to only manufactures ones

  5. The overthrow of conservative governments throughout Europe for not favoring industry over agriculture
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Explanation

The Industrial Revolution is defined by the shift from manual, agrarian production to mechanized factory-based manufacturing. This transition fundamentally altered economic and social structures.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

If virtue be the spring of a popular government during a revolution is virtue combined with terror. Virtue without which terror is destructive terror without which virtue is impotent. Terror is only justice prompt severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. It is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

 
This passage was likely written by ____________________.

  1. Abbe Sieyes

  2. Jean-Paul Marat

  3. Georges Danton

  4. Maximilian Robespierre

  5. Edmund Burke
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Maximilien Robespierre famously defended the Reign of Terror, arguing that virtue without terror is impotent and that terror is an emanation of virtue necessary to protect the French Republic.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

The Agricultural Revolution contributed to the Industrial Revolution in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

  1. Less people was tied to agriculture due to the enclosure movement

  2. More people were moving to cities looking for work

  3. New techniques and inventions led to a greater output of food supply and therefore larger population

  4. Crops from the Americas failed in European climates, making Europeans seek ways to improve agriculture

  5. Failing food prices allowed for more spending on consumer goods
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D Correct answer
Explanation

American crops did not fail in Europe; rather, they thrived and increased food supplies. The other choices correctly describe ways the Agricultural Revolution aided the Industrial Revolution.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

Satya Shodhak Samaj was founded by ______.

  1. Raja Rammohan Roy

  2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati

  3. Swami Vivekanand

  4. Jyotiba Phule
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D Correct answer
Explanation

He founded the Satya Shodhak Samaj in 1873 with the aim of securing social justice for the weaker sections of society. He pioneered the widow remarriage movement in Maharashtra and worked for the education of women.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

When did women in England start agitating for democratic rights?

  1. 1820s

  2. 1830s

  3. 1840s

  4. 1850s
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B Correct answer
Explanation

 Over the nineteenth century, ideas changed. By the 1830s, women in England began agitating for democratic rights. They started a suffrage movement. Suffrage movement was a movement wherein women demanded the right to vote.