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Question 1
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Which of the following was a major reason why the Industrial Revolution began in England?
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A widespread educational system
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A large collection of colonies
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Abundant coal and iron ore deposits
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Numerous mountain ranges
Question 2
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During the Industrial Revolution, farming improvements led to the privatizing and fencing off of land in Great Britain. What was this movement called?
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Suffrage movement
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Labor movement
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Factory movement
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Enclosure movement
Question 3
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During the Industrial Revolution, why did factory owners prefer to hire women and children to work for them?
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They could pay women and children more
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They could pay women and children less
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They were less likely to form unions
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They were more likely to form unions
Question 4
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What does the picture represent.
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The Enclosure Movement
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Crop Rotation
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Three-Field Method
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Fertilizer Method
Question 5
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Identify the type of energy used by the factories that resulted in the descriptions below:
• Factories relocated near raw materials, workers, transportation (ports, harbors, railroads etc)
• Cities grew around the factories built near central England’s coal and iron mines
• Increased pollution
• Rise in Disease/ lifespan shortened in the cities
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Water Power
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Steam Power
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Gasoline Power
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Wind Power
Question 6
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Identify everything that applies to the picture to the left.
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It was not practical because there were not enough rivers to provide the power needed to meet growing demand
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It replaced the steam engine
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The picture represents a factory run by water power.
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It was used because the energy source was near raw materials, workers, forms of transportation and markets
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It was not practical because rivers are prone to flooding and drying
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The picture represents a factory run by a steam power.
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It use in a factory came about because of the invention of the water frame.
Question 7
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As a result of the Industrial Revolution
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the status of women improved.
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working-class women tended to work in factories rather than in their homes
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few women worked in domestic service anymore
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Middle class women began to work as nannies, maids and cooks
Question 8
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Check off everything that is correct about the picture to the left.
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It represents the domestic system.
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It was powered by water power.
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The person was paid by the hour.
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The person lived in a tenement.
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The person was paid by the job or item.
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The work was done in the person's house
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It represents life in the early factories
Question 9
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The picture to the left represents life in a [blank_start]tenement[blank_end].
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tenement
Question 10
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Identify everything that applies to the picture to the left.
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It is a picture of a early steam engine.
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It it a picture of an early steam locomotive.
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It resulted in the prices of good becoming cheaper.
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It was used to power the factories.
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It reduced travel time.
Question 11
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Identify all the positive effects of the Industrial Revolution
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Education rose among the working classs
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Diet improved
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Cheaper clothes
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Labor reforms came about that protected workers and children
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Working class woman became teachers and secretaries,
Question 12
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All the following is true about steam power
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Its use increased the price of textiles.
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Factories that used steam could be built anywhere.
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It led to the growth of cities.
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It led to the increase use of coal.
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It led to a drop in demand for goods.
Question 13
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Use the passage below to answer the following questions.
This excerpt from The Conditions of the Working Class in England was written by Friedrich Engels after he visited an English industrial city in 1844:
Every great town has one or more slum areas where the workers struggle through life as best they can out of sight of the more fortunate classes of society. The slums…are generally unplanned wildernesses of one-or-two-storied houses. Wherever possible these have cellars which are also used as dwellings. The streets are usually unpaved, full of holes, filthy and strewn (filled) with refuse (garbage). Since they have neither gutters nor drains, the refuse accumulates (builds up) in stagnant (still), stinking puddles. The view of Manchester [England] is quite typical. The main river is narrow, coal-black and full of stinking filth and rubbish, which it deposits on its bank…One walks along a very rough path on the riverbank to reach a chaotic group of little, one-story, one-room cabins. …In front of the doors, filth, and garbage abounded…
Questions:
1. The houses mentioned in the reading above are called [blank_start]tenement[blank_end] houses.
2. The social class that lives in the houses came from the [blank_start]working[blank_end]-class.
3. The houses described above were probably built by the [blank_start]factory[blank_end] owners
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tenement
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working
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factory
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