Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What was the problem with wood?

Answer 1

Bulky

Difficult to transport

Question 2

Why is coal better than wood?

Answer 2

Produced 3x the energy and was smaller

Question 3

What was the most important market for coal?

Answer 3

London

Question 4

What was the main problem with mines?

Answer 4

They would flood

Question 5

Why did the poor sell their farms and move to the city?

Answer 5

Government made there farm property private and only the wealthy could afford to purchase these farms

Question 6

How did farming change a way of life

Answer 6

It became a business with many of inventions like the seed drill and crop rotation by jethro Tull

Question 7

Laissez faire

Answer 7

Allowed people to be free from gov regulations/control

Question 8

Why were wages kept low?

Answer 8

Do owners could profit more

Question 9

James watts

Answer 9

Invented the steam engine

Question 10

Darby

Answer 10

Invented cast iron to make anything from pots and pans to bridges

Question 11

What did coal cause for miners?

Answer 11

Black lung

Question 12

Why were roads terrible?

Answer 12

They had just 2 muddy wheel tracks

Question 13

Why was a pack horse bad?

Answer 13

Was slow and limited goods could be carried and many goods fell off and broke

Question 14

James Macadam

Answer 14

Perfected the design of the gravel road making transportation easier

Question 15

George/ Robert Stephenson

Answer 15

Built the rocket for railways which could travel 39 kmph (Very fast at the time)

Question 16

Why were working conditions unsafe?

Answer 16

Because owners didn’t want to spend money to keep the factories safe so they could make more money

Question 17

Some factors of work

Answer 17

Injuries and deaths were very common

Workers were paid as little as possible

Question 18

Child Labour Factors (Part 1)

Answer 18

Children worked from the age of 6

Education was not mandatory and very few poor kids could read or write

Poor families made their children work because they had no choice and needed money to pay for food

Question 19

Child Labour Factors Part 2

Answer 19

Since they are small they could work In dangerous places such as climbing in machines to fix them small mine shafts chimney cleaners and more

Negative effects for the children

Pollution from the coal burning, deaf from noisy machines, breathing I chemical particles, all causing bad lungs

Children often beaten

Since children are growing this causes harm to their bodies most likely causing deformed bodies in their future

Question 20

Scientific ideas in Britain weren’t _____________

Answer 20

Censored

Question 21

What is it called when people of action and ideas came together

Answer 21

Industrial enlightenment

Question 22

Where did industrialists and scientists meet?

Answer 22

Coffee shops

Question 23

What was watt determined to make?

Answer 23

The most efficient steam engine

Question 24

What crop was crucial in the West Indies?

Answer 24

Sugar cane

Question 25

What was the Royal Navy for?

Answer 25

To protect trades

Question 26

Who did Britain defeat to become the master of the seas?

Answer 26

France and Spain

Question 27

What class sold many luxuries?

Answer 27

The middle class

Question 28

Who would be primary purchasers for good?

Answer 28

Women from the middle class would buy fancy cutlery plates etc

Question 29

How many miles of roads were built in 70 years?

Answer 29

15,000