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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.

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

Taille was a/an _____.

  1. Indirect tax

  2. Direct tax

  3. Agricultural produce

  4. Situation of extreme poverty
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The taille was a direct land tax on the peasantry and non-nobles in pre-revolutionary France. It was a primary source of revenue for the French monarchy.

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

Consider the statement given below and select the correct explanation from the responses given thereafter: people of depressed classes found it difficult to find housing in Bombay during the late nineteenth century.

  1. Bombay had a mere $9.5$ square yards average space per person

  2. Wages of depressed classes were usually less than that of others

  3. Most people of depressed classes were kept out of chawls

  4. People belonging to the depressed classes had fixed space allotted per family
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People of depressed classes found it difficult to find housing in Bombay during the late nineteenth century. This is because depressed classes were kept out of chawls which is a large building divided into many separate tenements, offering cheap, basic accommodation to labourers