Y8 Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What were 2 consequences of the industrial revolution?

Answer 1

Improved agriculture, improved technology, improved transport

Question 2

What was the turnpike act?

Answer 2

A law which charged people on using the roads in order for their upkeep

Question 3

What caused Britain’s population boom?

Answer 3

A tax on gin, couples marrying younger, midwives improvements, doctors using anaethetics and antiseptics,

Question 4

What was life like in a victorian city?

Answer 4

Poor living conditions, lots of diseases, poor sanitation, poor water supply

Question 5

What changes did chadwick make to public health?

Answer 5

public health act of 1848, formation of national health board,

Question 6

What were 3 diseases during the 19th century?

Answer 6

Typhus, Cholera, smallpox

Question 7

What was the population of Britain in the 1750s?

Answer 7

7m

Question 8

What was the population of Britain in the 1900s

Answer 8

40m

Question 9

What caused the population boom?

Answer 9

Fab farmers, young love, magic midwives, Jenner’s jab, baby boom

Question 10

What changes did john snow make?

Answer 10

Closed pump, stopped belief that disease was caused by miasma

Question 11

What changes did bazalgette make?

Answer 11

87 miles brick-lined sewers, provided long term solution