Impact of the Industrial Age

Question 1

Which of the following did Samuel Morse invent or improve?

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the telegraph

Question 2

How did industrialization spread to the continent of Europe?

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British workers secretly brought in textile machinery plans.

Question 3

Which country was the first to industrialize in Europe?

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Britain

Question 4

After Germany’s unification in 1871, industrialization accelerated and

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constructed vast networks of railroads.

Question 5

The most important result of the Second Industrial Revolution was

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turning the United States into a world economic power.

Question 6

At the end of the 1800s, the direct effect of more leisure time was that

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popular culture began to grow.

Question 7

In order to stop the spread of industrial technology, Britain

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forbade mechanics, engineers, and others from leaving the country.

Question 8

An important development or discovery in science and medicine due to industrialization was

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Pasteur’s discovery that disease is spread by bacteria.

Question 9

This chart shows changes in how world manufacturing was distributed in 1870 and 1913.

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the United States

Question 10

How did Francis Cabot Lowell begin to transform the role of women in the United States?

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He offered women a chance to earn a living.

Impact of the Industrial Age Answers