lesson 2

Question 1

what is a factory? what natural resource provided the power to run these early factories?

Answer 1

A. Large buildings in which machinery is used to manufacture goods.
B. Coal

Question 2

What American product, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, allowed England’s textile industry to succeed?
However, it caused the American South to rely more on which type of labor?

Answer 2

A. cotton gin
B. more slaves and plantations

Question 3

What is an entrepreneur

Answer 3

A person who organizes, manages, and takes risks of business

Question 4

Who created the first steamboat and how did it revolutionize world waterways

Answer 4

Robert Fulton
Allowed transportation of raw and finished goods throughout a country.

Question 5

How did the Mcadam road influence the development of the turnpike

Answer 5

Large stones on bottom and crushed rock on the top allowed for better drainage

Question 6

Identify two ways in which the railroad revolutionized life in great Britain

Answer 6

A. Created jobs
B. Easier to travel

Question 7

Define Urbanization and why was urbanization happening

Answer 7

A. The growth and building of cities and the migration of people to them

B. Workers migrated into cities in search of work in the factories.

Question 8

Provide three examples of each common factory working and urban living conditions during the early part of the industrial revolution before any reforms were instituted.

Answer 8

A. No sanitary plans
B. Sickness easily spread
C. Workers lived in single apartments with the entire family

Question 9

What is the middle class? How did the middle class begin to transform the social structure of Britain?

Answer 9

A. A social class or skilled workers, professionals, business people, and farmers.

B. They began to earn more money, grow in size, and enjoy standard living.