How Did The Industrial Revolution Change Society?

Question 1

How did the Revolution change society?(4)

Answer 1

• Britain no longer a rural agriculture country
• Industrial Revolution led to growth of towns
• Rapid growth of population
• New social order

Question 2

How much did the population grow from 1750 - 1850?

Answer 2

10 million - 30 million

Question 3

Why did people migrate from the South to the North And Midlands ?

Answer 3

Because coal and iron and steam power lay in the Midlands and the North.

Question 4

What was the consequence of the population growth?

Answer 4

Whole new cities rose out of nothing

Question 5

How many cities were they in England and Scotland outside of London in 1785 and how many were they 70 years later?

Answer 5

Only 3 cities grew to more than 31 cities.

Question 6

What was the state of hygiene?(6)

Answer 6

Lots of pollution
Little sanitation
Little running water 
Water pollution 
Refuse left to rot in streets
Air pollution

Question 7

Why did family life disintegrate?

Answer 7

Whole families lived in single rooms

Question 8

What were the consequences of these unhealthy living conditions?

Answer 8

Disease spreed easily

Crime rose at times of unemployment or economic depression

Question 9

What were conditions like for workers?

Answer 9

Conditions were not good-mainly due to the “laissez-faire” government policy of not interfering in business.

Question 10

A world of the free market regulated within itself by certain natural laws such as ______ and ____.

Answer 10

Supply

Demand

Question 11

What was supply and demand?

Answer 11

The amount of goods and services that are available for people to buy compared to the amount of goods and services that people want to buy

Question 12

What was the effect of the laissez faire on factory owners?

Answer 12

They could what they liked and their employees had little or no power to change the situation.

Question 13

True or false

Kids as young as 6 would work in the mines

Answer 13

True

Question 14

How did the working class respond to the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 14

The workers although they had no political power and little economic power were not entirely passive under the system.

Question 15

One group called the _____ resorted to violence and machine breaking.

Answer 15

Luddites

Question 16

Who were the Chartists?

Answer 16

They sought to gain political rights and political power in order to improve conditions.

Question 17

Other working class members formed _______ _______ to bargain for better _______ and working _______.

Answer 17

Trade Unions
Wages
Conditions

Question 18

Who were the Luddites? (3)

Answer 18

• A group of skilled workers/craftsman
• Organized a campaign to destroy machinery which was taking away their livelihoods
• Often clashed with mill owners

Question 19

How were the Luddites defeated?(4)

Answer 19

• Troops guarded the mills and machines
• Penalties for machine wrecking ranged from 14 years
• 17 Luddites were hanged
• Government spies

Question 20

What were the Trade Unions?

Answer 20

Trade unions are organizations formed by workers from related fields that work for the common interest of its members.

Question 21

Who were the Chartists?

Answer 21

• Members of a mass movement which tried to bring changes to political system.
• They drew up the people’s charter

Question 22

The Chartists realized that if the working class was to improve wages and working conditions they had to have ______ _____.

Answer 22

Political powers

Question 23

True or false
They wanted to overthrow the system by force instead of applying pressure through strikes, petitions, demonstrations and appeal to the people’s charter.

Answer 23

False, they didn’t want to overthrow the system by force.

Question 24

People’s charter

1. ) Vote for all men over the age of ____
2. ) Secret _____
3. ) Payment of _____
4. ) Making _______ same size
5. ) An _____ parliament
6. ) Doing away with the requirement of MP’s owning fixed ______

Answer 24

21 
Ballots 
MP’s 
Constituencies 
Annual 
Property