Industrial Revolution

Question 1

Chartist movement

Answer 1

One of the first large scale European working-class political movements. Demanded that all men be given the right to vote. Campaigned to limit the workday in factories to 10 hours and to permit duty-free importation of wheat in to Britain to secure cheap bread.

Question 2

Combination Acts

Answer 2

Outlawed unions and strikes. Repealed a 1563 law the regulated the wages of artisans and the conditions of apprenticeship.

Question 3

Mines Act of 1842

Answer 3

Prohibited women as well as boys under age 10 from working underground.

Question 4

Factory Act of 1833

Answer 4

Limited the factory workday to 8 hours for children aged 9-13. 12-hour work day for adolescents ages 14-18. Did not regulate hours of work for children working in small business or at home. Broke the pattern of whole families working together in the factory because efficiency required standardized shifts for all workers.

Question 5

Saint Monday

Answer 5

Many workers still observed religious holidays; because so many did not work on Mondays it gained the popular title.

Question 6

Feidrich Engels (The Condition of the Working Class in England)

Answer 6

Future revolutionary and colleague of KArl Marx whose work criticized the working conditions of the factory system; he argued that poverty of industrial workers was worse than the old poverty of the cottage industry; accused the middle class of “mass murder” and “wholesale robbery”.

Question 7

Luddites

Answer 7

Handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England and vandalized machines they believed were putting them out of business