Industrial Rev

Question 1

• Five factors that contributed to start of Industrial Revolution

Answer 1

1. Food surplus 2. Increased population 3. Ready supply of money 4. Natural resources 5. Supply of markets

Question 2

• Causes of Industrial Age

Answer 2

coal, colonies, consumer demand for cotton

Question 3

• Colonization

Answer 3

mercantilism

Question 4

Industrialization

Answer 4

capitalism

Question 5

• Adam Smith

Answer 5

Wealth of Nations (laissez-faire)

Question 6

• Calico Acts of 1720 and 1721

Answer 6

prohibited the import of cotton cloth, and restricted the sale of calicoes in Britain

Question 7

• Four inventions that advanced the production of cotton cloth:

Answer 7

1. Flying shuttle 2. Spinning jenny 3. Water-powered loom 4. Steam engine

Question 8

• Social effects

Answer 8

Upper and Middle classes benefitted
•	Lower class suffered- greed, neglect, laissez-faire, Social Darwinism

Question 9

New social classes

Answer 9

1. Owner class
2. Several generations of factory abuse (Who were Luddites?)
3. Women first textile workers (What are textiles?)
4. Migrations and immigrations increased
5. Urbanization- pollution, crime, poor living conditions, overpopulation, disease…

Question 10

get rid of industrial economic system or reform it

Answer 10

• Critics

Question 11

• Karl Marx

Answer 11

scientific socialism- Communism & • The Communist Manifesto

Question 12

• The Communist Manifesto

Answer 12

divide people into two classes- capitalists and proletariat

Question 13

• Knights of Labor

Answer 13

started as a secret band of tailors and led riots and crap

Question 14

• Darwin v. Marx

Answer 14

Darwin is a theorist of natural history while Marx has been called a theorist of human history - • Both tried to understand the operative forces and processes of development in life (and in human society.)

Question 15

Limited children under thirteen to work eight hours a day, six days a week.

Answer 15

Factory Act of 1833

Question 16

Prohibited employment of children under ten and women from working in mines

Answer 16

Mines Act of 1842

Question 17

Reduced working hours to ten hours a day.

Answer 17

Ten-Hour Law of 1847

Question 18

What is a trade union?

Answer 18

a group of workers who work together to meet and negotiate with managers or owners for the benefit of the workers. The purpose of a trade union is to give workers more power. Workers acting together have more ability to win their demands than an individual acting alone.

Question 19

What is reform

Answer 19

make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.