Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What are some pros of the industrial revolution?

Answer 1

• New inventions
• Higher economy
• Wealth
• Mass production
• Cheap goods
• Plenty of work

Question 2

What are some cons of the the industrial revolution?

Answer 2

• Pollution with smoke which cause disease
• Child labour was extremely common
• Dangerous working conditions

Question 3

Lost two early improvements in the textile industry (new machines)

Answer 3

• In 1764 the “Spinning Jenny” spun 8 threads at once.

- In 1964 water powered “Richard Arkwrights” was invented.

Question 4

What industry did the industrial revolution begin in?

Answer 4

In the Textile industry

Question 5

In what century was there a huge change In the percentage of spinning and weaving done by machine.

Answer 5

At the end of the 18th century

Question 6

What was the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 6

When rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. The development of the steam engine, iron ect was produced. More volume and variety was manufactured and living improved for some.

Question 7

When did the Industrial Revolution occur?

Answer 7

The Industrial Revolution began in 1790. In Britain it began in the late 1700’s.

Question 8

What happened as a result of the Industrial Revolution to how goods were produced?

Answer 8

More goods were produced with machinery in factories in mass production and were produced to a hugger standard.

Question 9

What did Thomas Edison contribute?

Answer 9

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in order to see easier after sunset and to make indoor lighting safer (rather than candles).

Question 10

When did Thomas Edison begin working on his own for, of electricity?

Answer 10

In the 1870’s

Question 11

When did Thomas Edison run his first test for his new lamp?

Answer 11

October 19th 1879

Question 12

Where was most manufacturing done prior to the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 12

In homes or small rural shops

Question 13

Where did most people live before the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 13

In small, rural communities.

Question 14

How were children treated in factories?

Answer 14

• Cruelly and unusually
• Safety was neglected
• Abused, physically and mentally
• Inhumanly treated and punished
• Suffered from long term injuries

Question 15

In what occupations were most children employed in?

Answer 15

Agriculture and water-powered cotton mills

Question 16

What percentage of the population of children were employed in factories?

Answer 16

35% - 50% of children were employed in factories.

Question 17

What percentage of children under 14 were employed in 1750?

Answer 17

14% of employed workers were under the age of 14

Question 18

Would the reforms improve working life for children? How?

Answer 18

Yes, because it cut back the hours of work the children could do daily and, eventually, eliminated child labour all together.

Question 19

What are the dangers for children if they are working in water-powered cotton mills?

Answer 19

• Having your hands crushed
• If their hair became entangled in the machine, their scalps could be ripped off
• Some were killed instantly if they fell asleep and fell into the machines.

Question 20

What year were the hours for child labour cut back for the first time? And how many years later were children under the age of 9 banned from working?

Answer 20

Limitations on the number of hours children could work was put into place in 1802, and 31 years later children under 9 couldn’t work any longer.

Question 21

What was the importance of coal in the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 21

Britain was well supplied with coal which was used as a fuel which was powerful and much cheaper than traditional fuel (wood). While mining for coal they encountered flooding, which led to Thomas Newcomen to invented a pump to pump water out of mines. Coal also burned hotter than wood charcoal and the additional heat was needed in the boilers which ran the newly developed steam engines. Would make steam engines go further and faster.

Question 22

Where, when and who did the spinning and weaving in the textile industry before the revolution?

Answer 22

In the mid eighteenth century, spinning and weaving was done by farming families and agricultural workers at home in the evenings after toiling in the fields all day (known as cottage industry).

Question 23

Why was the Industrial Revolution in Britain?

Answer 23

• Britain had resources
• Wealth from Colonial trade
• Ships to import raw materials and export manufactured goods.
• It had 80% of the worlds coal
• Geographically had the waterways and canals to ship goods,smo factories were built near waterways.

Question 24

Who/When was the steam engine invented?

Answer 24

James Watt invented the steam engine in 1769

Question 25

What changed in Britain during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 25

• The population rapidly increased
• Many people moved from rural to urban areas.
• Increase in demand for raw materials
• Increase in international trade and communications once telegraph was used.
• Encouraged use of banks
• Changes in agriculture helped food quality (improvements in diet)
• Medical technology improved (thus better health = increase in population)

Question 26

Who does “rural population” refer to?

Answer 26

Country dwellers

Question 27

What year was the steam engine invented?

Answer 27

1698