British Industrialisation

Question 1

Why did Britain industrialise first

Answer 1

Population growth
New ideas and inventions
More food available
Raw materials
Empire and trade
Transport improved

Question 2

Living conditions in houses
Overcrowding

Answer 2

-families lived in small rooms
-houses built very close together (back to back housing) to fit as many people as possible
- by making people live in small rooms , factory owners benefitted, getting a profit as it was cheaper to make houses this way
-more people moved to cities for work (overcrowding)

Question 3

Living conditions in housing (rubbish and sewage)

Answer 3

-sewage was often contaminated
-cholera
-lots of flooding
-had to walk through sewage to get in and out
- no bin collectors
-sewage may over flow into streets or out of privy
- vermin
-rubbish in streets

Question 4

Living conditions in housing (water)

Answer 4

-people got water from pumps
-water is from the river Thames
- water pumps very close to privy so contamination
- pipes often break
- pumps located in the courtyard

Question 5

Living conditions (health and disease)

Answer 5

-cholera (50% death rate)
- disease spreads very quickly
-significant outbreaks in London and cities
- urban poor got very I’ll