Industrial Revolution Study Guide

Question 1

In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Answer 1

England

Question 2

Which 2 natural resources were the backbone of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 2

Coal and Iron

Question 3

Which innovation allowed factories to be built anywhere?

Answer 3

Steam engine

Question 4

Why did the cottage industry come to an end?

Answer 4

Too many people moved to the city and it was replaced by the factory system.

Question 5

What is the movement of people from the rural to urban area?

Answer 5

Urbanization

Question 6

Who designed the first efficient steam engine?

Answer 6

James Watt

Question 7

What product was first made using machines in factories?

Answer 7

Textiles

Question 8

Mass production led to:

Answer 8

goods being less expensive

Question 9

Before the Industrial Revolution, all products were created by:

Answer 9

hand

Question 10

Why were railroads so important during this time?

Answer 10

They moved goods more quickly and less expensively over great distances.

Question 11

Louis Pasteur discovered a link between a link between diseases and?

Answer 11

Bacteria

Question 12

A workers group formed to limit the power of the business or company owner

Answer 12

Labor Union

Question 13

What is the definition of capitalism?

Answer 13

An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Question 14

What is the definition of laissez-faire?

Answer 14

The policy which is based on the idea that governments an the law should not interfere with business, finance, or the conditions of people’s working lives.

Question 15

The Industrial Revolution is known as the

Answer 15

increase in machine-made goods that began in England during the 18th century

Question 16

What caused the development of factories?

Answer 16

New machines were too big to put into the cottages

Question 17

What power source did the first factories run on?

Answer 17

water or steam

Question 18

What 3 factors are needed for production to drive the Industrial Revolution

Answer 18

All of these

Question 19

Which of the following DID NOT help England in becoming the lead during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 19

Military deaths and losses

Question 20

What was the NEGATIVE effect of urbanization of Britain’s population?

Answer 20

Housing was poorly constructed and crime was a persistent problem

Question 21

Why did children not attend school?

Answer 21

Kids were forced to beg and work.

Question 22

What decreased in the urban areas during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 22

living conditions in the cities

Question 23

What class of people increased their structure and wealth during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 23

Middle Class

Question 24

How did the Industrial Revolution affect cities?

Answer 24

It made the population grow faster than the housing supply

Question 25

What were the effects of the Railroad?

Answer 25

It fueled other industries like coal, steam engines, iron and steel

Question 26

What is the name of the voluntary association created to protect workers’ rights?

Answer 26

Labor Unions

Question 27

Collective bargaining is between…

Answer 27

employers and unions

Question 28

Who wrote the book, The Wealth of Nations?

Answer 28

Adam Smith

Question 29

Which of the following believed in a free-market system?

Answer 29

Adam Smith

Question 30

Who wrote The Communist Manifesto?

Answer 30

Karl Marx

Question 31

What is the system policy where a government keeps their hands off the economy?

Answer 31

Laissez-Faire

Question 32

What was a long term political effect from Marx’s Communist Manifesto?

Answer 32

Vladimir Lenin was inspired to adopt it in Russia.

Question 33

What system was impacted by the invention and use of the Cotton Gin, Spinning Jenny, and Flying Shuttle

Answer 33

Factory System