Ch. 14 Industrialization

Question 1

What is the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

• 1760
• It was a process that transformed society from agriculture to Industry.
• Used machines to manufacture goods
• Transition from animal and manuel labor towards machine manufacturing economy
• Started in Britain and then spread throughout the world

Question 2

What aspects of life did the Industrial Revolution change for the people?

Answer 2

-It was an era of changes occurred in agriculture, textile, metal, transportation, economic polices and social structure.

Question 3

Why did the Industrial Rev. occur in Britain?

Answer 3

• agriculture productivity was high in Britain
• specialization, freed people to turn talents to inventing machines
• high amounts of natural resources
• London had a sophisticated banking system.
• colonization of E. India company bringing in cotton for cheap, created a demand in Britain

Question 4

What are the technology changes brought on by the Industrial Rev. ?

Answer 4

• Inter-changeable parts
• Transportation
• Alternate Energy
• Last was Henry Fords, assembly lines

Question 5

What influence do interchangeable parts play in the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 5

• specialization to making one part

- helped for mass production of goods

Question 6

What was prior to the the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 6

• the Collage System
• –>farmers would assemble a piece of a product and a the developer of the business would could the pieces and combine it to a final product.

Question 7

What social shifts occurs with the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 7

• factory system
• large factories developed
• shift from farms to factories to replace the cottage system.
• —>urbanization
• —> Improved quality of life by goods available

Question 8

Who were the Luddites?

Answer 8

• 1760

- English textile artisans that protested against the labor saving technology brought forward by the Revolution.

Question 9

Who was Karl Marx?

Answer 9

• Born in Germany, 1818
• To him French Rev. was the rise of the middle class
• Class struggle, between that controls production and a class that provides the labour for production.
• Called “capitalism”the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.”
• He predicts b/c capitalism is an exploitive relationship it will result in another Rev. and replaced by socialism.

Question 10

What did Karl Marx not anticipate would happen in the industrial rev.?

Answer 10

• Labor reforms :
• ->Trade unions
• ->Child labor laws
• After German States unite, German gives govt. medical insurance and retirement pensions to workers.