Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What is Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

Industrial Revolution refers to the change from manual labour to the use of machines in the production of goods and services beginning in Britain before spreading to other parts of the world.

Question 2

List the cause of the Agrarian Revolution?

Answer 2

*The Agrarian Revolution
*Rise of Laissez -faire capitalism
*Impact of European Imperialism
*Coal mining in Britain

Question 3

Why was the Agrarian revolution a cause of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 3

The Agrarian Revolution laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution by improving agricultural productivity, leading to population growth, urbanization, capital investment, and a new labor force.

Question 4

What is the Rise of Laissez -faire capitalism?

Answer 4

This means that the people wanted more freedom to carry out their own economic affairs without the government interfering.

Question 5

What is Coal mining in Britain?

Answer 5

So coal mining was a necessary ingredient for Britain because it process as it fueled the steam engines for trains, ships and other sorts of machinery.

Question 6

Why did Britain have more advantage over the other European countries?

Answer 6

Because coal was near to the surface

Question 7

List the effects of Industrial Revolution?

Answer 7

*The rise of an industrial middle
class (white collar jobs)
*Child labour
*Public Health and Life
*Expectancy
*Urbanization
*Wealth and Income
*Britain’s power
*Rise of democracy

Question 8

The rise of an industrial middle is also know as?

Answer 8

White collar jobs

Question 9

What is the rise of an industrial middle?

Answer 9

Meaning: business people;
shopkeepers, bank clerks; insurance
agents; merchants; accountants;
managers; doctors; lawyers; and
teachers) and the formation of the
working class

Question 10

What is child labour?

Answer 10

It was the cheapest labour of all. They were paid one-tenth of what men were given. Children were generally ill-looking,
small, sickly and barefooted. They
had to work because they were poor.

Question 11

What is the Public Health and Life?

Answer 11

Urban overcrowding; poor diets; poor
sanitation plus lack of advancement in
medical remedies contributed to very
poor public health for the majority of
English people.

Question 12

What are some of the diseases the people fell ill to?

Answer 12

cholera, tuberculosis, typhus, typhoid
and influenza
Poor nutrition, disease, lack of
sanitation and harmful medical care (
use of bloodletting leeches)

Question 13

What is the Urbanization?

Answer 13

this refers to the rise of cities due to the
migration from rural areas.

Question 14

In what year did people live in cities more than rural areas in Great Britain?

Answer 14

1850

Question 15

What is wealth and income ?

Answer 15

The middle class based on their ownership and work would allow them to amass great wealth and income.

Question 16

How did the artisans and weavers etc lost their main source of income?

Answer 16

due to the closure of the cottage industries.

Question 17

What is Britain’s power?

Answer 17

Britain became the wealthiest and
most powerful nation at the time in
world until World War II?

Question 18

In what year did the Britain power maintain?

Answer 18

(1939-1945)

Question 19

What is Rise of democracy?

Answer 19

With the middle class earning money it
led to the rise of democracy as they
challenged the aristocracy for
political rule.

Question 20

When was Jamaica introduce to electricity?

Answer 20

1892

Question 21

Who invented the first successful electric lamp?

Answer 21

Thomas Edison

Question 22

List some stuffs that happened in the Caribbean when the industrial rev was taking place?

Answer 22

*The use of the railway in agriculture and
transportation in Jamaica and Cuba
*The use of steam ships for the exportation of bananas and other raw materials to Europe
*The mechanization of the industries of the
Caribbean