Industrial Revolution Flashcards
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Define workhouse
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A public institution in which the poor and destitute that a parish would normally look after lived an worked as cheap labor
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Define Industrial Revolution
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This was a time in which industrialisation occurred and transformed an agricultural society into an industrial one
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What was mass production?
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Is where machines produce many standardised copies of the same thing very quickly and without the faults of handmade objects
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What was agrarian society?
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Farming society, one whose industry was agriculture
