Short Answers

Question 1

What was enclosure?

Answer 1

When landowners began to considerate the small strips into large fields.

Question 2

Why was enclosure important to the industrial revolution?

Answer 2

Larger fields meant that farmers spent less time working the land and could work it more profitably. Farming also Evans’s a business. New plants and animals were introduced and farming could became more mechanized.

Question 3

Disadvantages of cottage industries

Answer 3

• Weaving/spinning was generally poorly paid
• people worked long hours for little in return
• Individual cottages worked alone

Question 4

Advantages of cottage industries

Answer 4

• Working in homes meant that they could look after their families
• They were able to work/live in their own communities
• The income benefited their families

Question 5

Jobs children had

Answer 5

• Run in and out of the working power looms and use their small hands to pick out loose threads or tangles
• Small boys cleared out the soot in chimneys and cleaned the chimneys
• canning food
• Picking berries or shells
• pushing coal carts through mine tunnels

Question 6

Dangers children faced while working

Answer 6

• Exposed pollution from coal-burning
• The air was filled with fluff in the Textile factories which got deep in children’s lungs
• Loud machines and looms have off deafening loud sounds
• They were always beaten from overtime shifts

Question 7

Why did children have to work?

Answer 7

• Their families needed money so they sent their children to go work as soon as they were mature enough
• Not a lot of children went to school, so they wouldn’t have anything else to do but work
• They were small and people needed someone their size to work for them