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Which change most clearly distinguished the factory system from the older putting-out system?
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Which combination best defines the capitalist economic system that developed alongside industrialization?
- A
Public ownership of factories and equal distribution of output
- B
Agricultural self-sufficiency and barter exchange
- C
Private ownership, investment for profit, competitive markets, and wage labor
- D
Government assignment of every worker to a particular occupation
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Why did many early industrial cities experience overcrowding and epidemics?
- A
Urban growth often outpaced municipal services and public-health infrastructure.
- B
Industrial cities generally had too few migrants to sustain their populations.
- C
Factories prevented cities from developing transportation networks.
- D
Urban governments immediately supplied adequate sanitation to every neighborhood.
04
True or false
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Steam power allowed factories to operate only beside rapidly flowing rivers.
- A
True
- B
False
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True or false
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The Luddite movement opposed every form of new technology, regardless of how employers used it.
- A
True
- B
False
06
Written response
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In what year did Britain pass the Factory Act that prohibited employing children under nine in textile factories and introduced factory inspectors?
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What one-word name does the material give to the economic system based on private ownership, investment for profit, competitive markets, and wage labor?
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Industrialization encouraged , the growth of towns and cities, and expanded , in which people worked in exchange for wages.
09
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The movement connected economic grievances to demands for expanded male suffrage and electoral reform in Britain.
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Which two conditions from the material helped Britain industrialize first? Select all correct choices.
- A
Accessible supplies of coal and iron
- B
The immediate disappearance of agriculture
- C
Commercial expansion through ports, trade, finance, and colonial connections
- D
A complete absence of older forms of work
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Which two developments both transformed industrial society by improving connections or addressing urban public-health problems? Select all correct choices.
- A
The return to seasonal work rhythms
- B
Railways and telegraphs
- C
The replacement of all wage labor by household production
- D
Sewer systems, piped water, and related public-health reforms
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How did factory labor alter the relationship between workers and the production process?
- A
Factory workers generally controlled production more than artisans had.
- B
Factory employment removed the need for punctuality and regular shifts.
- C
Factory employment reduced workers’ control over production and imposed regular discipline.
- D
Factory employment made employers unnecessary because machines operated independently.
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Which statement best evaluates the material’s account of industrialization’s effects on living standards?
- A
Industrialization produced real but uneven improvements, often after an initial period of hardship.
- B
Industrialization improved living conditions immediately and equally for all classes.
- C
Industrialization reduced material consumption while eliminating workplace dangers.
- D
Industrialization had no long-term effects on health, consumption, or living conditions.
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How did industrial capitalism connect European industrialization to the wider world?
- A
It made European economies entirely self-sufficient and ended overseas trade.
- B
It connected European production to global supplies and markets while reinforcing imperial inequalities.
- C
It prevented European manufacturers from selling goods outside their local towns.
- D
It replaced raw materials with locally produced substitutes in every industrial region.
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Which description best explains the putting-out system that existed before the factory system became dominant?
- A
Workers operated machines together in a centrally supervised factory.
- B
Merchants distributed materials to households for hand production.
- C
The state assigned production quotas to public workshops.
- D
Skilled artisans produced only for local guilds.
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Which combination best explains why Britain industrialized before most other European regions?
- A
A ban on overseas trade combined with declining agricultural output.
- B
A policy of keeping workers in rural villages combined with limited banking.
- C
Accessible resources, commercial expansion, improved transport, and institutions that supported investment.
- D
The immediate replacement of all farms by factories through government planning.
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True or false
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True or false: Britain's 1833 Factory Act combined restrictions on child labor with limits on older children's hours and the introduction of factory inspectors.
- A
True
- B
False
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Written response
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What term did nineteenth-century observers use for the social group that included factory owners, mine owners, merchants, bankers, and entrepreneurs whose wealth increasingly came from investment and industry?
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Which communication technology helped governments, businesses, and newspapers exchange information more rapidly and contributed to the development of national public opinion during the Second Industrial Revolution?
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Open ended
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Explain how industrialization changed both people’s experience of time and their mobility. Identify the industrial developments that produced these changes and explain why their effects were uneven.