chapter topic 13.1, 13.2 industrial revolution

Question 1

why GB was able to industrialize

Answer 1

• natural resources (large supply of coal, powered steam engines, large amount of iron; built machines)
• geography (island nation many ports; allowed for easy trading goods, streams and rivers; provided water power, rivers/ canals used to move goods efficiently/ cotton/ wool)
• population (allowed many ppl to leave farming industry/ farming jobs to industrial work)
• capital (invest to make more money, nobles made money in slave trade and used it to invest in companies)
• strong stable govt (overhgtorw

Question 2

jethro tull

Answer 2

• scientific farmer who invented seed drill

Question 3

robert bakewell

Answer 3

• selective breeding, method of animal breeding that produced more and better animals, milk, meat

Question 4

life in working class

Answer 4

• accident prone
• 10-14 hour days in an unventilated room
• wages extremely low esp. for women/children

Question 5

living conditions

Answer 5

• men at work women at home
• women roles, housewife, hoisemaker, mother, wife

Question 6

karl marx theory of communism

Answer 6

• struggle between social classes (bourgeoisie and capitalist, proletariat and workers)
• defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will lead inevitably to a communist revolution

Question 7

thomas malthus and david ricardo theory

Answer 7

• theory of wages based on population
• held that the market price of labour would always tend toward the minimum required for subsistence