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Industrial Revolution Reading

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20 questions
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Question 1
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Define Industrial Revolution

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Question 4
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Question 6
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What are textiles?

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Question 9
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What is an entreprenuer?

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Question 14
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Define urbanization

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Question 15
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Draw a picture or write a journal entry showing details of person who worked in a factory and lived in one of the industrial cities. Show at least 3 deails from the "Living Conditions" paragraph on this page.

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Question 16
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Draw a picture or write a journal entry showing details of person who worked in a factory and lived in one of the industrial cities. Show at least 3 deails from the "Working Conditions" paragraph on this page.

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Question 18
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Why did Luddites attack factories and destroy machines?

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Question 19
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Describe the life of child factory worker. Use at least 3 details from the reading.

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Question 20
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What did the Factory Act of 1819 do?

Question 2
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Question 3
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The system of farming where famers plant new crops (like turnips) in a field in order to replace soil nutrients is called

Selective breeding
Allowed only the best animals to reproduce
Banned the best animals from reproducing
Increased the weight of animals

Question 5
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What are the 3 factors of production?

Question 7
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Match the invention

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Im Singer's sewing machine
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Increased the productivity of weavers
John Kay's Flying Shuttle
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Question 8
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Which machines would have been found in the first factories?

Question 10
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Financed the steam engine
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James Watt
Built first steam-driven locomotive
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Matthew Boulton
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Robert Fulton
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Question 13
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Question 17
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Match the new social classes of the Industrial Age to their description

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Upper Middle Class
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traditionally were at the top of British society
Working Class
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Government employees, doctors, lawyers, and managers of factories, mines and hopes.
Lower Middle Class
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Which of the listed statements are true of enclosures
owned by wealthy landowners
owned by small farmers
allowed farmers to experiment with more productive seeding and harvesting methods
Decreased crop productivity
increased crop productivity
caused small farmers to move to the cities
Harvested wheat, increased production
Spinning Jenny
Improved sewing machines by adding a foot treadle to adjust speed
Cyrus McCormick's Reaper
Allowed instant communication
Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone
Increased the speed of making thread
Spinning Mule
Telephones
Power Looms
Invented a fuel efficient steam engine
Built the first railroad line; and the Rocket locomotive
Richard Trevithick
Built the first steamboat
George Stephenson
Which of these were effects of the railroads in Britain?
Encouraged more people to move away from the cities
Allowed agricultural and fishing industries to ship their products to distant cities
made people take city jobs
Made people take country jobs
Created jobs for railroad workers and miners
Gave manufacturers a cheap way to transport materials and finished products
Which of these were positive effects brought on by industrialization?
Better quality of life for most people
jobs
higer wages than farm work
Better clothing
pollution
child labor
unhealthy working conditions
class tensions
Which of these were negative effects brought on by industrialization?
child labor
unhealthy working conditions
pollution
higer wages than farm work
class tensions
Better clothing
Better quality of life for most people
jobs
Factory overseers, skilled workers
Landowners and aristocrats
laborers