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Multiple choice history the industrial revolution from capitalism to imperialism industrial revolution and inventions industrial revolution and its effects

Most of the coal mining centered around _______.

    1. Scotland

    2. the Midlands

    3. the London region

    4. None of the above
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    B Correct answer
    Explanation

     Midlands of England consists of the East and West Midlands were the areas where most of the coal mining was centered. The region was instrumental in the Industrial Revolution during the 18th and 19th centuries in England for its large amount of natural resources.

    Multiple choice history the industrial revolution from capitalism to imperialism industrial revolution and inventions industrial revolution and its effects

    When did the earliest factories come up in England?

    1. 1720s

    2. 1730s

    3. 1740s

    4. 1750s
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    B Correct answer
    Explanation

    The earliest factories in England came up during the 1730s and grew in number during the late eighteenth century. Cotton factories were the first factories to be set up and its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.

    Multiple choice history the industrial revolution from capitalism to imperialism industrial revolution and inventions industrial revolution and its effects

    Which one of the following factories was considered as a symbol of new era in England in the late eighteen century?

    1. Metal

    2. Cotton

    3. Jute

    4. Iron and Steel
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    B Correct answer
    Explanation

    The British had always woven cloth out of wool and flax. From 17th century country, had been importing bales of cotton from India. Till early 18th century spinning was a very slow process. But a series of technological invention fill the gap between the speed in spinning raw cotton into yarn. From the 1780s, the cotton industries in Britain symbolised industrialisation in Britain. From now raw cotton had to be imported and finished cloth was exported.

    Multiple choice history the industrial revolution from capitalism to imperialism industrial revolution and inventions industrial revolution and its effects

    Search for colonies led to ______ imperialism.

    1. Colonial

    2. Economic

    3. Political

    4. Socio-cultural
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    A Correct answer
    Explanation
    Exploitation colonialism is the national economic policy of conquering a country to exploit its population as labour and its natural resources as raw material. The practice of exploitation colonialism contrasts with settler colonialism, the policy of conquering a country to establish a branch of the metropole (motherland). A reason for which a country might practice exploitation colonialism is the immediate financial gain produced by the low-cost extraction of raw materials by means of a native people, usually administered by a colonial government.

    The geopolitics of an Imperialist power determine which of these colonial practices it will follow. In the example of the British Empire, colonists settled mainly in northern North America and in Australia, where the native populations declined due to disease and violence in the course of establishing a facsimile society of the metropole. Whereas the densely populated countries of the British Raj (1858–1947), in the Indian subcontinent, and the British occupation of Egypt and South Africa, as well as the island of Barbados, were ruled by a small populace of colonial administrators (colonial government) that redirected the local economies to exploitation management to supply the metropole with food, raw materials, and some finished goods.

    Exploitation was often reinforced by colonial European geographers who implemented theories such as environmental determinism, which suggested warmer climates produced less civilized people. These theories were among the scholarly canon that helped legitimize colonial activity and expansion into overseas territories.

    Geographers such as Friedrich Ratzel suggested that the survival of empire relied on its ability to expand its control and influence around the world.By implying a correlation between colonial expansion and national success, geographers were able to produce a sense of nationalism within many European nations. Their influence created a sense of pride that was able to reassure subjects that their nation’s activity abroad was beneficial to not only them, but that their presence was necessary within the territories being occupied.

    Barbados was claimed for the English in 1625 by Captain John Powell, and by the 1660s the English had come to regard Barbados as being by far and away their most highly prized possession anywhere in the New World.The island's value to England, and the enormous wealth of a minority of its English inhabitants, hinged on the relationship that had been forged during the previous twenty years between sugar and slavery.
    Multiple choice history the industrial revolution from capitalism to imperialism industrial revolution and inventions industrial revolution and its effects

    As a result of the Industrial Revolution in England, the society was divided into _____ distinct classes.

    1. 3

    2. 4

    3. 2

    4. 5
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    A Correct answer
    Explanation

    The correct answer for this question is option A, that is 3. Following the Industrial Revolution, a new class structure emerged which comprised of the lower/working class, the middle class and the upper class.

    Multiple choice history the industrial revolution from capitalism to imperialism industrial revolution and inventions industrial revolution and its effects

    The industrial revolution changed the ______ face of England.

    1. Political

    2. Economic

    3. Social

    4. Cultural
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    B Correct answer
    Explanation

    The industrial revolution changed the economic face of England. England became the most advanced country in the world. It developed its trade relations and this increased the national income. The establishment of factories saw the rise of many new industrial towns like Manchester, Lancashire, Birmingham and Sheffield. 

    Multiple choice history the industrial revolution from capitalism to imperialism industrial revolution and inventions industrial revolution and its effects

    Who wrote several volumes on London labour?

    1. Henry Mayhew

    2. Gareth Stedman Jones

    3. George Clay

    4. None of these
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    A Correct answer
    Explanation

    In the mid-nineteenth century, Henry Mayhew wrote several volumes on the London labour, and compiled long list of those who made a living from crime. Many of whom he listed as 'criminal' were in fact poor people who lived by stealing lead from roofs.

    Multiple choice history the industrial revolution from capitalism to imperialism industrial revolution and inventions industrial revolution and its effects

    In which year more than three-quarters of the adults living in Manchester were migrants from rural areas?

    1. 1850

    2. 1851

    3. 1852

    4. 1853
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    B Correct answer
    Explanation

    The early industrial cities of Britain such as Leeds and Manchester attracted large numbers of migrants to the textile mills setup in the late eighteenth century. In 1851, more than three-quarters of the adults living in Manchester were migrants from rural areas.

    Multiple choice history the industrial revolution from capitalism to imperialism industrial revolution and inventions industrial revolution and its effects

    Why women gradually lost their industrial job?

    1. Because of increase in population

    2. Because of increase in crime

    3. Because of technological development

    4. All of above
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    C Correct answer
    Explanation

    Factories employed large number of women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With technology developments, women gradually lost their industrial jobs, and were forced to work within household.