A. railways.
B. shipyards.
C. factories.
D. hospital and schools.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Modern World History MCQs
Which of the following statement does not represent nineteenth-century middle-class thinking about gender role?
A. men and women inhabited “separate spheres”.
B. women were suited for longer because their brains were larger.
C. men and women had different social roles.
D. women were morally superior to men because of their “passionlessness”.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The first steam engine, used for pumping water from mine shafts was invented in 1711 by?
A. William Blake.
B. Matthew Boulton.
C. James Watt.
D. Thomas Newcomen.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
In general, the population of Europe in the nineteenth century:
A. declined.
B. stay roughly at the same.
C. showed a dramatic increase.
D. slowly increased.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
The English contractor Thomas Brassey is best known for:
A. developing the first steam-powered locomotive.
B. opening the Stockton to Darlington line in 1825.
C. criticizing continental railway system.
D. building railways in Canada, Argentina, Australia and India.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Americans owed their ability to travel upstream to an invention by
A. Eli Whitney ( )
B. Robert Fulton ( )
C. Samuel Slater ( )
D. Robert Fulton ( )
✅ The correct answer is option D.
The Erie Canal connected
A. Buffalo and Rochester ( )
B. Albany and Buffalo ( )
C. Rochester and Albany ( )
D. Buffalo and Pittsburg ( )
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The invention and the use of machines was actually stimulated by a shortage of
A. Labour ( )
B. capital ( )
C. raw materials ( )
D. trading ships ( )
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Who sneaked the plans for a spinning machine out of England and built a factory in Rhode Island?
A. Eli Whitney ( )
B. Robert Fulton ( )
C. Samuel Slater ( )
D. Samuel Morse ( )
✅ The correct answer is option C.
One of Eli Whitney’s major Contributions to American manufacturing was his idea for
A. Steam engine ( )
B. textile machinery ( )
C. the factory sysytem ( )
D. interchangable parts ( )
✅ The correct answer is option D.