Key Knowledge

Question 1

What are some causes of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

New inventions, access to raw materials, trade, routes and partners, Britain had transport for goods, coal production, population increase, agrarian revolution, markets to sell goods, factories to produce goods

Question 2

Key inventors or innovators

Answer 2

James Wyatt, Henry Cort, Samuel Cropton, William Wilberforce, Richard Arkwright, Edmund Cartwright, Turnip Townsend

Question 3

Chi innovations that change agriculture and or production

Answer 3

Water frame, powerloom, steam engine, four cap rotation,system, speed drill, Rotherham plough

Question 4

Positive effects of the industrial revolution

Answer 4

Developed economy, legislation to protect children from child labor, immigrants of machinery, mechanism of agriculture, more affordable, goods, improved, transportation, improved communication

Question 5

Negative effects of the industrial revolution

Answer 5

Rise of unhealthy habits, widening gap between working and wealthy class, child labor increase, overcrowded cities, bad sanitary conditions