Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What was life like in Europe before the industrial revolution?

Answer 1

People lived in rural villages and people grew their own crops and made clothes.

Question 2

What did the agricultural revolution allow for?

Answer 2

new job specialization.

Question 3

Step 1 for agricultural revolution

Answer 3

fertilizer (poop)

Question 4

Step 2 for agricultural revolution

Answer 4

Crop rotation

Question 5

Step 3 for agricultural revolution

Answer 5

Jethro Tullis seed dril (in rows)

Question 6

Step 4 for agricultural revolution

Answer 6

Enclosure. Wealthy landowners consolidated peasants land.

Question 7

What did all these steps for the agriculture lead to?

Answer 7

A surplus of food and population growth.

Question 8

Why did people migrate to cities?

Answer 8

To get jobs after being dropped from agricultural jobs.

Question 9

Why did people invent so much?

Answer 9

Job specialization

Question 10

What were some inventions created or discovered?

Answer 10

Steam power, coal, iron ore, steam engine

Question 11

Who invented the steam engine?

Answer 11

James Watt

Question 12

What is another way of saying “the old system” for the textile industry?

Answer 12

Cottage Industry

Question 13

Who lead the way during the industrial revolution?

Answer 13

Britain

Question 14

What was factor 1 of the industrial revolutiion?

Answer 14

A large work force.
HArd workers not highly educated and easily trained.

Question 15

What was factor 2 of the industrial revolution?

Answer 15

Geography
Water helped with trasnportation, power, change, port cities.

Question 16

What was factor 3 of the industrial revolution?

Answer 16

Abundant Natural Recourses
Coal,Iron

Question 17

What was factor 4 of the industrial revolution?

Answer 17

New buisnesses take off
Entrepeneurs invested in mining, railroads, textile, etc.

Question 18

What was factor 5 in the inddustrial revolution?

Answer 18

The birth of factories.
factories increase input and output production
inexpensive goods get produce and prices drop.

Question 19

After a long time was was a positive?

Answer 19

Workers pay, and benefits begin to increase

Question 20

How did the I.R. benefit entrepreneurs?

Answer 20

It brought great riches.

Question 21

Who did the I.R benefit?

Answer 21

Entrepreneurs and Industrial middle class.

Question 22

Who were known as the industrial middle class?

Answer 22

Artisans and merchants

Question 23

how did the I.R affect the working class badly?

Answer 23

They were given low wages and harsh living conditions

Question 24

Describe the industrial working class living conditions.

Answer 24

Tenement apartments, no running water, no sewage or sanitation system,garbage filled streets, sewage pumped water.

Question 25

How long were the factoriy and mine shifts?

Answer 25

12-16 hours for 6-7 days

Question 26

Women were hired because…

Answer 26

they earned 1/2 of mens pay

Question 27

Why did children work?

Answer 27

Small, made money, Small hands for fixing.

Question 28

What were good results of industrialization?

Answer 28

Wages started to grow overtime.

Question 29

What were some bad results of industrialization?

Answer 29

Low pay, bad living, child labor.