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Chapter 12 Age of Industry
  1. Why were village economies limited to the local area?
   A) Villagers feared using bandit-infested roads.
   B) Transportation to other areas was difficult.
   C) Trade associations taxed goods from other areas.
   D) Fields were too small to grow large crops of food.
  2. What was the domestic system?
   A) People worked in their own homes.
   B) Merchants delivered goods to people's homes.
   C) Only women and children worked.
   D) People worked in other people's homes.
  3. What was the enclosure movement?
   A) rules for shutting lawbreakers in prison
   B) the closing off of common lands to all farming
   C) laws that allowed landowners to fence off land
   D) fencing off an area to rest the soil for one year
  4. What is capital with respect to industrialization?
   A) the difference between income and expenses
   B) raw materials
   C) goods for trading
   D) money available for investment
  5. Which of the pairings of inventor and invention is correct?
   A) James Hargreaves and the cotton gin
   B) Robert Fulton and the first practical steamboat
   C) Richard Arkwright and the steam engine
   D) Eli Whitney and the spinning jenny
  6. Which of the following terms are you likely to use in a discussion of the division of labor?
   A) the conveyor belt
   B) the assembly line
   C) repetition of tasks
   D) all of the above
  7. Of the following, who did NOT directly contribute to improved communications?
   A) Samuel Morse
   B) Rudolf Diesel
   C) Guglielmo Marconi
   D) Alexander Graham Bell
  8. What was a major result of the Industrial Revolution?
   A) a more flexible social order
   B) heavier taxes on the wealthy
   C) a decline in the servant class
   D) all of the above
  9. Which of the following statements is not true about laborers during this time?
   A) Women often made half what men made for the same work.
   B) Workers spent 10 to 14 hours a day in the factory.
   C) Children were not allowed to work in factories.
   D) Factory owners made profits by keeping workers' wages low.
  10. In collective bargaining, ______
   A) the local or federal government imposes a solution.
   B) union leaders and the employer try to reach an agreement.
   C) all union members go to the employer to present their demands.
   D) employers lock employees inside the factory until they reach an agreement.



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