The industrial revolution

Question 1

Estimated start dates to the Industrial Revolution

Answer 1

1760-1840

Question 2

What happened to Britains population during the Industrial Revolution

Answer 2

It had a big boom

Question 3

What was the name of the system when people worked in their homes.

Answer 3

Cottage system, domestic system

Question 4

What was the name of the system where people worked in large mechanised buildings.

Answer 4

The factory system

Question 5

Name three machines that were invented during the Industrial Revolution

Answer 5

Spinning jenny, steam engine, dynamo

Question 6

What did Alexander Graham invent in 1896

Answer 6

The telephone

Question 7

Name three engineering feats of Brunel

Answer 7

SS Great Britain, Clifton suspension bridge, Great western Railway (GWR)

Question 8

How was Richard Arkwright involved with the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 8

He made the water frame and the spinning frame

Question 9

What name is given to workers housing around factories

Answer 9

Back to back housing

Question 10

What was positioned at the end of workers housing

Answer 10

A toilet

Question 11

The outbreak of which disease killed thousands of Londoners in 1858

Answer 11

Cholera

Question 12

Apart from cholera, name 3 diseases that killed people in the Industrial Revolution

Answer 12

Smallpox, typhoid, TB

Question 13

What point was Hogarth making when he published Gin Lane

Answer 13

Gin was a dangerous drink and was killing people

Question 14

State 3 problems with living conditions in the Industrial Revolution

Answer 14

Houses were too small
Houses were not built strongly
There was not proper hygeine in the cities

Question 15

State 3 problems with working conditions during the Industrial Revolution

Answer 15

1 children were made to work
2 people had to work for long hours
3 dangerous machines were being used without any safety precautions

Question 16

State 3 developments with transport during the Industrial Revolution

Answer 16

1 the train was invented
2 roads were made safe by the turnpike trust
3 canals were made to transport delicate goods

Question 17

State 3 ways in which life or work improved as part of the transport revolution

Answer 17

1 people could travel to work
2 people could go on holiday easily by train
3 railways allowed fresh food to be transported quickly, improving diets

Question 18

State 3 ways in which work changed in Britain during the Industrial Revolution

Answer 18

1 more people worked in communal factories
2 there were more engineering jobs to do with trains and boats
3 people could travel to work