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AP World History Industrial Revolution — practice questions

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The first nation to mechanise the production of goods in the eighteenth century was:Read the answer and worked solution →Cheap mass production of steel began in the 1850s with a method named after:Read the answer and worked solution →Cheaper rust-resistant steel let engineers make heavier and stronger:Read the answer and worked solution →The petrol-driven automobile was patented in 1886 by the German engineer:Read the answer and worked solution →The incandescent light bulb was invented by Joseph Swan in Britain and in America by:Read the answer and worked solution →The first transatlantic telegraph line linking Britain and North America was completed in:Read the answer and worked solution →Chemical experiments produced synthetic aniline dyes that changed the colours of:Read the answer and worked solution →Industrialisation in Canada began in the 1850s in Montreal and:Read the answer and worked solution →Before 1868 Japan was ruled in the emperor's place by a military leader titled the:Read the answer and worked solution →The emperor who took the throne in 1867 and gave his name to Japan's modernisation was:Read the answer and worked solution →The first industrial goal of Japan's new government was to unite the regions by building:Read the answer and worked solution →Britain won Hong Kong and five treaty ports by winning the First:Read the answer and worked solution →Chinese writers later called the era beginning with those defeats the century of:Read the answer and worked solution →Industry drove empire because engines, tyres and machines needed new supplies of:Read the answer and worked solution →At the start of the Second Industrial Revolution the share of Africa Europeans controlled was about:Read the answer and worked solution →Britain took formal control of the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa in:Read the answer and worked solution →Britain's second area of interest in Africa was valued as a source of cotton. It was:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian farmers were pushed to grow tea and cotton to supply British mills. Such crops are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Africa's interior rivers are broken by waterfalls, so Europeans moved inland using:Read the answer and worked solution →An Indian entrepreneur from a wealthy Hindu family who invested in industry was Dwarkanath:Read the answer and worked solution →Compared with France and Germany, Italy's industrialisation began:Read the answer and worked solution →The Second Industrial Revolution rested above all on the mass production of:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the new technologyRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the raw materialsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the history gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the industry wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Britain or JapanRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the history wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the yearRead the answer and worked solution →Industry bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The first nation to mechanise the production of goods in the eighteenth century was:

  1. Great Britain
  2. Great Belgium
  3. Great Bavaria
  4. Great Bohemia
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Correct answer: A. Great Britain

1. The United States, France and Belgium followed later. 2. One country began the shift before all of them. 3. That country was Great Britain. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 9, The Second Industrial Revolution._

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Cheap mass production of steel began in the 1850s with a method named after:

  1. Bernoulli
  2. Bessemer
  3. Boltzmann
  4. Berzelius
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Correct answer: B. Bessemer

1. The breakthrough was a way to make steel in bulk. 2. It carries the name of the man who developed it. 3. It is the Bessemer process. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 9, The Second Industrial Revolution._

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Cheaper rust-resistant steel let engineers make heavier and stronger:

  1. Rail lines
  2. Rain drains
  3. Roof tiles
  4. Rope coils
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Correct answer: A. Rail lines

1. Railways carried ever heavier loads as industry grew. 2. Iron track could not take that weight for long. 3. Steel made stronger rail lines possible. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 9, The Second Industrial Revolution._

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