Industrial revolution 3

Question 1

Where were entrepreneurs on the scale

Answer 1

-High
-Rich
-Inventors
-Successful

Question 2

Who was the middle class

Answer 2

-Artisans
-Merchants
-Had decent $

Question 3

Industrial working class

Answer 3

-Working class
-Poor
-Low wages
-Bad living conditions

Question 4

Housing conditions

Answer 4

-Tenement apartments
-1 room for everything
-Tiny
-6 people
-No running water

Question 5

What were the results of having no sewage system?

Answer 5

-Communal outhouses
-Had to pump it when full/rain

Question 6

Garbage

Answer 6

-Rotting in the streets
-People sent trash downriver
-Bad for the downriver people, bc it’s what they drink

Question 7

Kids in the factories

Answer 7

-Worked long, families were desperate
-Kids on farms did chores, so they were used to it
-Had to fix things w/fingers (cot stabbed or cut off)
As young as 5

Question 8

Life in the mines

Answer 8

-The carbon dioxide killed/poisoned people
-Kids were small so they had to pull carts in the mines

Question 9

How did wages eventually increase

Answer 9

-Strikes