Industrial Revolutions Quiz

Question 0

James Hargreaves

Answer 0

Gifted Carpender, jack of all trades, invented cotton spinning Jenny

Question 1

Industrial Revolution

Answer 1

A term coined in the 1830s to despise the burst of major inventions and technical change in certain industries

Question 2

Richard Arkwright

Answer 2

Invented another kind of spinning machine is the water frame

Question 3

James Watt

Answer 3

Study of The steam engine

Question 4

George Stephenson

Answer 4

Build an effective locomotive

Question 5

Significance of railroad

Answer 5

Reduce cost and uncertainty of sniping or long distance, markets became larger meeting a larger factories and more machines

Question 6

Crystal Palace

Answer 6

Location of great exhibition, architectural masterpiece made of glass and Iron

Question 7

Factory act of 1833

Answer 7

Limited factory workdays for kids between nine and 13 to 8 hours and 14 and 18 to 12 hours

Question 8

Domestic system

Answer 8

Merchant hired workers to produce wall in their own homes

Question 9

Enclosure movement

Answer 9

Rich landowners allowed to evict a tenant farmers from land equals leaving many unemployed

Question 10

Textiles

Answer 10

Yspinning and weaving had sped up, flying shuttle, spinning Jenny, factory system

Question 11

Child labor

Answer 11

Children of poor or forced by economic conditions to work worked 15 hours a day and began at age 6

Question 12

Manchester England

Answer 12

New industrial city, well went up, terrible working conditions, polluted

Question 13

Sanitary conditions

Answer 13

Drain system, trash on streets, lifespan was 17, disease spread

Question 14

Work houses

Answer 14

Poor people with no job or name, or friends or abandoned children earned their way by working

Question 15

Samuel Slater

Answer 15

Became involved in textile industry, reached peak so he moved to America to make more money