Lesson Y8-U04-L08

Y8-U04-L08 How Much Did Britain Change Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 10

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Lesson Y8-U04-L08, How Much Did Britain Change: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 10: Year 8: Industrial Revolution, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does 'continuity' mean in history?

    • When a group of people is forced to move away from its home
    • When a new invention replaces an older one in every factory
    • When something changes completely within a single year
    • When something stays the same over time

  2. What does 'urbanisation' mean?

    • The creation of parks and gardens for the workers of the factories
    • The building of new canals and railways across the countryside
    • The fast growth of towns and cities as people move there for work
    • The return of workers from the towns to live in the villages

  3. What does 'industrialisation' mean?

    • The sale of factory goods to customers in the countryside by merchants
    • The shift from making things by hand at home to using machines in factories
    • The decision to close all the factories in towns and return to farming
    • The return of machines to farms to replace the work of the horses

  4. What does 'transformation' mean?

    • A change in the ruler of a country after a long war
    • A very big, complete change
    • A small change that affects only a single family or village
    • A slight change in the price of goods at the local market

  5. Roughly how large was Britain's population in 1900?

    • About 67 million
    • About 3.7 million
    • About 7 million
    • About 37 million

  6. By 1851, what share of people in Britain lived in towns and cities?

    • Over half
    • About one in ten
    • Almost none
    • About one in four

  7. By 1900, what was Britain known as?

    • The workshop of the world
    • The home of the Silk Road
    • The gateway to the Americas
    • The breadbasket of Europe

  8. What was the main way people travelled long distances across Britain in 1750, before the railways?

    • By motor coaches travelling on tarmac motorways
    • By steam locomotives running on iron railway lines
    • By electric trams running along city streets
    • On horseback or in carts along rough, muddy roads

  9. Which of these is an example of continuity between 1750 and 1900?

    • Most goods were made by hand in cottages with spinning wheels
    • Most people lived in villages and farmed the land
    • Most families travelled only by walking or on horseback
    • Women still could not vote in 1900

  10. Which of these is an example of big change between 1750 and 1900?

    • Most people remained poor and had very little money to spend
    • The monarch and Parliament still ruled the country as before
    • Work moved from homes and farms to factories powered by steam machines
    • Women still could not vote and were not allowed to become MPs

  11. Why do historians compare a 'before' and an 'after' snapshot?

    • To find the exact date when a new invention was first thought of by a worker
    • To measure change by comparing the same aspects of life at two points in time
    • To prove that one particular event caused every change that happened in the period
    • To decide which king or queen was the most popular with the ordinary people

  12. In 1900, who held most of the wealth and power in Britain?

    • The poor families who lived in the back-to-back houses of the slums
    • Farm labourers who had moved to the towns to become their own bosses
    • Rich landowners and factory owners, while most ordinary people stayed poor
    • Factory workers who had formed unions and taken control of the mills

  13. A Manchester factory owner in the 1860s (Source A) praised the city's new factories and railways. What did he say the Industrial Revolution brought?

    • Great wealth and power, with machines clothing the world and railways carrying goods
    • Equal votes for every adult, which ended the rule of the rich
    • Peace and quiet, as the smoking chimneys were removed from the streets
    • Better homes and gardens for every family that lived in the slums

  14. Source A is a factory owner praising Manchester in the 1860s, and Source B is Friedrich Engels describing its slums in 1845. How does Source B disagree with Source A?

    • It says that only the children of the factory owners were allowed to work
    • It describes poor workers living in filthy, crowded streets while making riches for others
    • It says the factories were closed down because the workers were too rich
    • It says every worker was given a share of the profits from the mills

  15. Why might two writers describe the same city of Manchester so differently?

    • They had both been paid by the government to describe the city in the same way
    • They wrote their accounts in different centuries, so the city had changed too much
    • They were writing about two different cities that happened to have the same name
    • They had different social positions and perspectives, so they saw the same city in different ways

  16. Which statement best sums up the conclusion about change between 1750 and 1900?

    • Industry changed everything, including who held wealth and power, very quickly and without any resistance
    • Industry changed the countryside but never affected the towns or cities, which stayed much as they were in 1750
    • Industry changed how people lived and worked enormously, but who held wealth and power changed far more slowly
    • Industry changed almost nothing about the lives of ordinary people, but it did change how the rich were governed

  17. Why were the faces at the top of society said to have changed, while most people stayed poor?

    • Rich factory owners joined the ruling group, while most ordinary people still had little wealth
    • The government gave all workers a large share of the factory profits, paid out every year from the Treasury
    • Ordinary people became rich because they all owned their own factories and sold their goods directly to the wealthy
    • The factory owners were all forced out of power by the new laws in 1900, and the workers took over the government

  18. Which evidence best challenges the claim that everything changed between 1750 and 1900?

    • Most families had moved into large country houses with gardens
    • Most people had become rich enough to buy their own factories and mills
    • Most ordinary people were still poor in 1900, just as they had been in 1750
    • Most people had gained the vote and had a say in who ruled the country

  19. Which of these is the best definition of 'change' as used in history?

    • When something stays the same for many centuries without any alteration
    • When a new law replaces an old law overnight in every town
    • When something becomes different over time
    • When a town grows so fast that its older houses are destroyed by fire

  20. Why must historians weigh big changes against continuities?

    • It allows them to prove that the Industrial Revolution never really happened
    • It helps them judge which changes were the biggest and which things stayed the same
    • It allows them to ignore all changes and focus only on the things that stayed the same
    • It allows them to pick the single most exciting event and write only about that

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