Lesson test: The world it made

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The world it made

1.[2p]
Why did Britain's ban on exporting textile machinery and skilled artisans fail?

The knowledge was tacit and held in people's heads, which no customs house can search

Correct

The ban was never actually enforced against anyone

The answer is: The knowledge was tacit and held in people's heads, which no customs house can search

Foreign governments paid Britain to lift it

The answer is: The knowledge was tacit and held in people's heads, which no customs house can search

The machines were too simple to be worth protecting

The answer is: The knowledge was tacit and held in people's heads, which no customs house can search

2.[3p]
Match each figure to what they built.

Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
William Cockerill
The Meiji state

an integrated spinning and weaving mill at Waltham
the first successful water-powered spinning mill in the United States
spinning machinery at Verviers, and then the Seraing ironworks
the model silk mill at Tomioka

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Samuel Slater: the first successful water-powered spinning mill in the United States Francis Cabot Lowell: an integrated spinning and weaving mill at Waltham William Cockerill: spinning machinery at Verviers, and then the Seraing ironworks The Meiji state: the model silk mill at Tomioka

3.[2p]
Whose 1962 account has late industrialisers substituting banks and the state for private accumulation?

CorrectNot quite: Gerschenkron

4.[3p]
India's share of world manufacturing falls from 24.5 per cent in 1750 to 2.8 per cent in 1880. If world output rose sixfold, by what percentage did India's absolute output fall?

CorrectNot quite: 31

5.[3p]
For India's absolute output to have been unchanged between those two dates, by what factor would world manufacturing output have had to rise?

CorrectNot quite: 8.75

6.[3p]
What is the strongest objection to the strong version of Eric Williams's thesis that slave profits financed British industrialisation?

Slave trade profits were a small fraction of British domestic investment, which came mostly from retained profits

Correct

No British firm ever traded in enslaved people

The answer is: Slave trade profits were a small fraction of British domestic investment, which came mostly from retained profits

Britain abolished the slave trade before its cotton industry existed

The answer is: Slave trade profits were a small fraction of British domestic investment, which came mostly from retained profits

The cotton industry bought its raw material from India rather than America

The answer is: Slave trade profits were a small fraction of British domestic investment, which came mostly from retained profits

7.[1p]
Britain abolished slavery in its colonies in 1833 while its largest export industry ran on cotton grown by enslaved people in the American South.

True

Correct

False

The answer is: True

8.[2p]
Taking coal as 70 per cent carbon by mass, how many tons of carbon dioxide does burning one ton of coal produce?

CorrectNot quite: 2.57

9.[3p]
Britain produced about 62 million tons of coal in 1850 for a population of about 20.8 million. What is that in tons of carbon dioxide per head?

CorrectNot quite: 7.7

1.[2p] Why did Britain's ban on exporting textile machinery and skilled artisans fail?

2.[3p] Match each figure to what they built.

3.[2p] Whose 1962 account has late industrialisers substituting banks and the state for private accumulation?

4.[3p] India's share of world manufacturing falls from 24.5 per cent in 1750 to 2.8 per cent in 1880. If world output rose sixfold, by what percentage did India's absolute output fall?

5.[3p] For India's absolute output to have been unchanged between those two dates, by what factor would world manufacturing output have had to rise?

6.[3p] What is the strongest objection to the strong version of Eric Williams's thesis that slave profits financed British industrialisation?

7.[1p] Britain abolished slavery in its colonies in 1833 while its largest export industry ran on cotton grown by enslaved people in the American South.

8.[2p] Taking coal as 70 per cent carbon by mass, how many tons of carbon dioxide does burning one ton of coal produce?

9.[3p] Britain produced about 62 million tons of coal in 1850 for a population of about 20.8 million. What is that in tons of carbon dioxide per head?

1.[2p]
Why did Britain's ban on exporting textile machinery and skilled artisans fail?

2.[3p]
Match each figure to what they built.

3.[2p]
Whose 1962 account has late industrialisers substituting banks and the state for private accumulation?

4.[3p]
India's share of world manufacturing falls from 24.5 per cent in 1750 to 2.8 per cent in 1880. If world output rose sixfold, by what percentage did India's absolute output fall?

5.[3p]
For India's absolute output to have been unchanged between those two dates, by what factor would world manufacturing output have had to rise?

6.[3p]
What is the strongest objection to the strong version of Eric Williams's thesis that slave profits financed British industrialisation?

7.[1p]
Britain abolished slavery in its colonies in 1833 while its largest export industry ran on cotton grown by enslaved people in the American South.

8.[2p]
Taking coal as 70 per cent carbon by mass, how many tons of carbon dioxide does burning one ton of coal produce?

9.[3p]
Britain produced about 62 million tons of coal in 1850 for a population of about 20.8 million. What is that in tons of carbon dioxide per head?