Britain 2: consequences of industrialisation

Question 1

What are 4 consequences of industrialisation factors?

Answer 1

Growth of banking
Growth of middle class
Working conditions
Living conditions

Question 2

Working conditions

What was the fine for being 10 mins late?

Answer 2

2 hours wages

Question 3

Working conditions

What was the fine for talking?

Answer 3

1/5 daily wage

Question 4

Working conditions

How long was the working week?

Answer 4

6 days of 14hrs

Question 4

Working conditions

When was the Davy safety lamp introduced?

Answer 4

1815

Question 5

Working conditions

In mines, production went from what to what in which years?

Answer 5

1750 = 6 million tons
1850 = 55 million tons

Question 6

Working conditions

In mines, how deep were the mines by 1850, compared to what they were?

Answer 6

now 300 meters compared to 90 meters

Question 7

Working conditions

What did it mean if employees were ‘bound’?

Answer 7

involved agreeing to work for an allotted period of time and money, but employers did not have to provide this work

Question 8

Living conditions

How deep were house foundations?

Answer 8

3 bricks deep

Question 9

Living conditions

How much was rent for ‘back’ houses and front houses?

Answer 9

back = 1s 10d per week
front = 2s 6d per week

Question 10

Living conditions

What fraction of Birmingham lived in back-to-back houses?

Answer 10

2/3

Question 11

Living conditions

How many back-to-back houses were there in Nottingham by 1841?

Answer 11

12,600

Question 12

Living conditions

When, where, and how many people did the first major cholera outbreak kill?

Answer 12

1831 in Sunderland, 32,000 killed

Question 13

Living conditions

Name an example of a place that tried to improve living conditions

Answer 13

In Saltaire, West Yorkshire

Question 14

Living conditions

The population in urban areas increased by how much every decade?

Answer 14

27%

Question 15

Living conditions

Why was water only turned on for a limited period each day?

Answer 15

private companies competed to supply the water

Question 16

Living conditions

How many victims did typhus claim each year?

Answer 16

4000

Question 17

Living conditions

What % of children died before their 5th birthday?

Answer 17

57%

Question 18

Living conditions

In Chadwick’s report, how many streets did he find were unpaved?

Answer 18

248

Question 19

Living conditions

In Chadwick’s report, how many streets did he find were ill-ventilated?

Answer 19

112

Question 20

Growth of middle class

When did Richard Arkwright die with a fortune of what?

Answer 20

1792 with £500,000

Question 21

Growth of middle class

Name the man who had the idea to put a steam engine on wheels that died penniless after making poor decision making?

Answer 21

Richard Trevithick

Question 22

Growth of middle class

In what years did the middle class grow by 75%?

Answer 22

1816 and 1831

Question 23

Growth of middle class

How many middle class were there in 1816 compared to 1831?

Answer 23

1816 = 160,000
1831 = 214,000

Question 24

Growth of middle class

By 1838, how much was the cotton industry making and how many people were employed?

Answer 24

£300 million, employing 833,000 people

Question 25

Growth of middle class

Who owned the Cyfartha iron works?

Answer 25

Richard Crawshay

Question 26

Growth of middle class

How many people did the Cyfartha iron works employ?

Answer 26

5000 people

Question 27

Growth of banking

In 1784, how many join stock banks were there?

Answer 27

119

Question 28

Growth of banking

What did a clause in the Bank of England Charter in 1800 mean?

Answer 28

denied right of note issue to banks with more than 6 members = kept banking localised

Question 29

Growth of banking

In what year were there 800 banks?

Answer 29

1808

Question 30

Growth of banking

When were smaller banks absorbed into larger joint stock banks after the depression?

Answer 30

1826

Question 31

Growth of banking

What was the first joint stock bank and when?

Answer 31

Lancashire Banking Company in October 1826

Question 32

Growth of banking

What did the Act of Parliament do in 1833?

Answer 32

permitted join stock banks in London to issue cheques

Question 33

Growth of banking

How did the Act of Parliament significantly change banking?

Answer 33

Increased speed of transactions. Counties began setting up their own system of bankiing

Question 34

Growth of banking

In 1866, there were how many joint stock banks with how many branches?

Answer 34

154 banks with 850 branches nationwide

Question 35

How did the growth of banking lead to the growth of middle class?

Answer 35

Growth of banking allowed money to be transferred faster and provided safety for savings and investments, causing middle class to arise

Question 36

By 1811, British industry was making how much, with how much being exported?

Answer 36

£130 million, with £40 million being exported