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Industrial Revolution Reading

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20 questions
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Question 1
1.

Define Industrial Revolution

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Question 5
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What are the 3 factors of production?

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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
14.

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
18.

Why did Luddites attack factories and destroy machines?

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Question 19
19.

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

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Question 20
20.

What did the Factory Act of 1819 do?

Question 2
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Which of the listed statements are true of enclosures

Question 3
3.

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

Question 4
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Selective breeding

Question 7
7.

Match the invention

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Spinning Jenny
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Increased the productivity of weavers
Cyrus McCormick's Reaper
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Harvested wheat, increased production
Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone
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Improved sewing machines by adding a foot treadle to adjust speed
Im Singer's sewing machine
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Allowed instant communication
John Kay's Flying Shuttle
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Increased the speed of making thread
Question 8
8.

Which machines would have been found in the first factories?

Question 10
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Built the first railroad line; and the Rocket locomotive
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James Watt
Built first steam-driven locomotive
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Matthew Boulton
Built the first steamboat
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Robert Fulton
Financed the steam engine
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Richard Trevithick
Invented a fuel efficient steam engine
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George Stephenson
Question 11
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Which of these were effects of the railroads in Britain?

Question 12
12.

Which of these were positive effects brought on by industrialization?

Question 13
13.

Which of these were negative effects brought on by industrialization?

Question 17
17.

Match the new social classes of the Industrial Age to their description

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Landowners and aristocrats
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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.
Upper Middle Class
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Factory overseers, skilled workers
Lower Middle Class
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laborers