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(Honors) Life in the Industrial Age - Quiz

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What German composer created some of his most iconic music towards the end of his life while almost completely deaf?
Ludwig von Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Hector Berlioz
In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, the invention of ___________ greatly imrpoved the quality of surgeries for both doctor and patient.
anesthetic
surgical laser tools
machine monitors
pharmaceutical drugs
What firm believer of DC power, gave us the incadescent light bulb?
Brian Johnson
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Edison
George Westinghouse
What British naturalist was responsible for writing On the Origin of Species?
Issac Newton
Charles Darwin
Ole Roemer
Robert Oppenheimer
What post-impressionist painter suffered from psychotic episodes, delusions, and depression?
Vincent Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
Claude Monet
What inventor was responsible for the creation of the radio?
Alexander Graham Bell
Guglielmo Marconi
Thomas Newcomen
Samuel F.B. Morse
___________ created the cotton gin, which seperated the seeds from raw cotton at a fast rate.
Eli Whitney
Thomas Newcomen
Jethro Tull
John Deere
What was the world's first major rail line?
Washington D.C. to Baltimore
London to Cambridge
Liverpool to Manchester
Lyon to Paris
Major cities during the Industrial Revolution experienced __________, due to changes in farming, soaring population growth, and an ever-increasing demand for workers.
urbanization
collectivism
suburbanization
gentrification
What is it called when multiple corporations join forces to fix prices, set production quotas, and/or control markets?
an enterprise
a cartel
a monopoly
a conglomerate
What is the process by which rich landowners began taking over or consolidating land formely shared by peasant farmers?
civil asset forfeiture
foreclosure
enclosure
usurpation
Lifestyles in tenements greatly increased the chance for contracting such diseases as cholera.
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False
Labor unions were originally illegal, and members had to conduct secret meetings for fear of prison or retalliation.
True
False
Freeways were created by entrepreneurs who looked to charge travelers a toll, or fee, to use them.
True
False
Workers on an assembly line required proper training on all phases of production.
True
False
The Wright brothers short flight led to comercial flying being a reality only 20 years later.
True
False
Please select ANY answers applicable to Karl Marx.
Predicted a struggle between social classes that would lead to a classless society.
Theorized that economics was the driving force in history.
Along with Emmanuel Kant, wrote a pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto.
Was a leader in the Russian Revolution.
Please select ANY answers applicable to Florence Nightingale.
International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday.
Was responsible for founding the world's first school of nursing.
After the war, she worked to introduce sanitary measures in Russian hospitals.
Served as an army nurse in the Crimean War.
Please match each item on the left with its approraite definition/explanation on the right.
Henry Bessemer
Concluded that poverty was unavoidable because the population was increasing faster than the food supply.
James Watt
A chemist, who invented dynamtie, an explosive much safer than others used at the time.
Alfred Nobel
An engineer, who patented the quick and cheap process of making steel from iron.
Thomas Malthus
Responsible for creating the improved upon steam engine, which would power the Industrial Revolution.
Please match each item on the left with its approraite definition/explanation on the right.
Utilitarianism
People as a whole, rather than private individuals, would own and operate the means of production.
Communism
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Socialism
Though not introduced as it was written, this would come to be known as a system of government led by a small elite controlling all economic and political life.
Capitalism
The idea that the goal of society should be "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" of its citizens.