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