Chapter 5 Industrial Revolution

Question 0

Industrialized

Answer 0

An economy based on Industry, not agriculture

Question 1

Technology

Answer 1

New inventions; the science of industry

Question 2

Exploit

Answer 2

To use

Question 3

Labor supply

Answer 3

Supply of workers

Question 4

Test act

Answer 4

An act forbidding anyone except members of the church of England from a holding political office or entering the professions

Question 5

Capital

Answer 5

Money used invest in business

Question 6

Raw materials

Answer 6

Essential materials needed in an industry to make a product

Question 7

Commons

Answer 7

Learned how to be used by everyone

Question 8

Fodder

Answer 8

Animal food

Question 9

Synthetic

Answer 9

Made by humans

Question 10

Entrepreneur

Answer 10

A person who runs a business, taking the risk in order to earn a profit

Question 11

Franchise

Answer 11

The right to vote

Question 12

Cast iron

Answer 12

Molten iron poured into a mold to make a product

Question 13

Capitalist

Answer 13

A person with money to invest

Question 14

Clothier

Answer 14

A capitalist who invests money in textile making

Question 15

Social reforms

Answer 15

People who wish to damage the nature of society

Question 16

Labor unions

Answer 16

Organizations devoted to improving conditions for their members

Question 17

Society

Answer 17

In this context, the upper-class

Question 18

Supply

Answer 18

The amount of goods available

Question 19

Demand

Answer 19

The desire of people to buy a certain goods or product

Question 20

Why did the Industrial Revolution start in England?

Answer 20

Lots of people were willing to work, and there was lots of raw materials

Question 21

What was the importance of the colonies?

Answer 21

British colonies can import raw materials from the colonies and saw the finished product back to the colonies

Question 22

What were the important part of the agricultural revolution?

Answer 22

New breeds, crops, and technology/enclosure was invented

Question 23

What were the main parts of the economic revolution and how did they affect people’s lives?

Answer 23

Laissez-faire policy which meant business and industry were as free as free as possible from any government regulation

Question 24

What was an important type of transportation improvement?

Answer 24

The steam machine/engine

Question 25

What is supply and demand?

Answer 25

Supply meant the amount of goods available

Demand it was the desire of people to buy a certain product

Question 26

How did the factory age affect people?

Answer 26

New inventions required a large source of energy (water or steam), Required factories
Factory system affected thousands and thousands of people. Create a new cities, with factory workers living in large housing development. Made Britian wealthy but was brutally hard on working people
A working/middle-class emerged

Question 27

What were the factory act?

Answer 27

A law designed to improve the lives of working people, children were the first to benefit, it was illegal to have children work 12 hours straight in cotton mills, later it became illegal to hire a child under nine years of age for work in the textile industry, factory acts were past later passed

Question 28

What was life like for people during the Industrial Revolution? All levels

Answer 28

Upper-class, lived in a large households with many servants, lives pampered lives
Middle class, how do at least one or more servants moderate size house
Poor, lived in crammed apartment buildings normally one family lived in one room, cities grew quickly so streets and sewers hadn’t been built which caused polluted water that often carry diseases, sometimes lived in workhouses

Question 29

What were industrial cities like?

Answer 29

Crowded, crime in disease were common, diseases such as scarlet fever, tetanus, tuberculosis and chlorea

Question 30

Where did people go during the industrial revolution if they cannot find work?

Answer 30

Overcrowded cities of Britain, move to colonies

Question 31

What was Townsheds innovation?

Answer 31

His innovation was to make agriculture more profitable, Found going for crops in rotation produced four times the amount of crop

Question 32

What was the spinning Jenny?

Answer 32

The spinning Jenny sped up production right by spinning eight threads at once, an improvement for the spinning wheel

Question 33

What were the Mac Adam roads?

Answer 33

The Mac Adam roads were for 30 feet wide and required a 3 inch elevation from the edges to the center to allow water to flow off into the ditches on either side

Question 34

What were working conditions for children?

Answer 34

Went into work at the earliest age possible for their family to afford food and shelter. Wages were low. Children were useful because of their small size, they could stick their hands into workings of machines and pick out tangles or threads. Chimney cleaners also employed small boys, who were sent up into chimneys of large houses and buildings to clean out soot.