The Industrial Revolution Flashcards
What was life like before the Industrial Revolution?
Life was the same for a thousand years or so. People lived rural and made their own things and farmed. People did everything for themselves.
What was the cause of the Industrial Revolution?
New technology kept building on itself; new inventions=new inventions. Cheap fuel (coal) allowed people to explore fuel powered machines.
How did I.R. affect employment?
Factories could make things more cheaply and more easily than skilled workers (ex.shoemaker). People preffered cheap things. So, skilled workers went out of business and employment of unskilled workers for factories rose sharply.
How did I.R. affect settlement?
Everything became more urbanized. For example, armers had to leave because their jobs were replaced by tractors. People began clustering around factories and forming cities.
How did I.R. affect overall society?
Life became much more like it is today. People lived in cities and relied on factories and other people to make things for them, rather than making their own things. They would work in the city and have a city lifestyle unlike the rural lives they had led before.
Explain child labour in the industrial revolution.
To work in a factory, you needed absolutely no skill. At the time, there were no laws against child labour and children did not go to school. So, factories hired children. Without any laws factory owners worked children in terrible conditions.
Explain social reform coming out of I.R.
After protests about child labour, people decided that children should be educated. They also thought that in this world of revolution better educated children could better help the world.
People were going on strike in terrible factory conditions and forming unions.
After protests laws and rules were formed to protect people.
Explain improved health coming out of I.R.
People had longer life spans because of improved medicine and easier lifestyles.
Explain improved connectedness coming out of I.R.
Telegraphs allowed communication and better transportation (steam ships, railways) allowed more movement. Railways lead people to thin of other places and think more outwardly, rather than living and thinking only locally
