Modern World History Archives

321. Which of the following did not occur did not occur with the Industrial Revolution in America?

A. Man replaced handheld tools.

B. Unskilled workers replaced skilled workers

C. Other sources of energy like steam replaed human energy

D. All of the above occured.

✅ The correct answer is option D.

322. Before 1815, industrialization in the continent was held back by the:

A. French Revolution

B. Continental System.

C. Napoleonic Wars.

D. All of the above.

✅ The correct answer is option D.

323. During the industrial revolution, a new type of family arose among the middle class in Europe. Which of the following is a characteristic of the new middle-class family?

A. a great number of children

B. a stress on social status rather than love in marriage

C. a belief that the home should be a haven

D. a distaste for material possessions

✅ The correct answer is option C.

324. Queen Victoria was a successful queen because:

A. she and her husband embodied traits important to the middle classes.

B. her name has come to represent the culture of the nineteenth century.

C. she managed to extol the virtues of the aristocracy at the moment they went into decline.

D. her court was all in respects similar to her uncle, George IV.

✅ The correct answer is option A.

325. Visiting a doctor in the 1850s was a risky affair; often, their remedies for diseases caused more harm than good for the patients. Out of all the following commonly-prescribed early nineteenth-century treatments, which is the only one that was NOT generally harmful to the patient?

A. taking the waters

B. the drug Laudanum

C. bloodletting

D. laxative purges

✅ The correct answer is option A.

326. The Industrial Revolution occurred first in Great Britain because:

A. the Continental System guaranteed that Britain would be able to import much needed coal.

B. the government was able to borrow necessary capital from German banking houses.

C. agriculture was more thoroughly commercialized in Britain than elsewhere.

D. of its vast network of internal tolls and tariffs.

✅ The correct answer is option C.

327. Jane Austin was among those novelists who reflected the middle-class belief in

A. the importance of the home as the setting for a rewarding family life.

B. entrepreneurship.

C. the problem of bureaucracy within the established church.

D. a women’s obligation to work outside the home.

✅ The correct answer is option A.

328. The “ new cathedrals ” of the industrial age were:

A. museums, opera houses and city halls.

B. textile factories.

C. railway stations.

D. suburban middle class homes.

✅ The correct answer is option A.

329. What was the immediate impact of the Cotton Gin in America?

A. It made cotton more profitable ( )

B. It drove planters out of business ( )

C. It made the land more fertile ( )

D. It made slavery unprofitable ( )

✅ The correct answer is option A.

330. Middle-class respectability required all but which of the following?

A. financial independence.

B. living modestly and soberly.

C. merit and character.

D. conspicuous consumption.

✅ The correct answer is option D.