topic 7.1 the industrial revolution

Question 1

Industrialization

Answer 1

the growth of industry work (secondary sector/manufacturing work)

Question 2

Industrial Revolution

Answer 2

the radical change in manufacturing methods that began in Great Britain in the mid-18th century and was marked by the shift from small-scale, hand-crafted, muscle-powered production to power-driven mass production

Question 3

When did it begin?

Answer 3

Mid-18th century (mid-1700s)

Question 4

Where did it begin?

Answer 4

Great Britain

Question 5

Why there?

Answer 5

An abundance of natural resources (coal), workers, capital (money), and markets

Question 6

What other places quickly started to industrialize?

Answer 6

NW Europe and North America, friends with the British

Question 7

How does quick and easy access to natural resources correlate with industrialization?

Answer 7

You don’t have to ask permission/pay money. Having quick and easy access to resources (especially coal) was important for industrialization

Question 8

Cottage industries:

Answer 8

preindustrial form of manufacture in which members of families spread out through rural areas worked in their homes to make goods

Question 9

How did industrialization diffuse? (hint: more than one way)

Answer 9

ALL the ways. Relocation: picked up and moved over, Hierarchical: top down, Contagious: everyone everywhere, Stimulus: it changed/innovated along the way

Question 10

What new technologies emerged as a result of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 10

Steam engine, spinning jenny, steel bridges, milling machines, farming technologies, canning, dyes, chemicals, etc.

Question 11

What resource became an important fuel source during early industry? Why?

Answer 11

Coal, wood was starting to run out, and it burned hotter and more consistently

Question 12

List out important effects of industrialization (i.e. food supply, population, urbanization, etc.):

Answer 12

Food supplies went up
Population went up
Urbanization went up
Class structures emerged

Question 13

Explain how industrialization contributed to the rise in colonialism/imperialism

Answer 13

North America and Australia were early adopters because of its previous colonial relationship with the British. Also, the British took advantage of their colonies by taking raw resources from them for cheap, and having an intended market to sell their products back to