Industrial Revolution Review Quiz II

People began to travel more but the availability of goods decreased

New jobs were created building canals and railroads and mining coal.

Prices of good increased as availability for these goods increased

These modes of transportation were quickly replaced by water-powered modes of transportation.

Industries developed and trade over longer distances grew.

It slowed the growth of the Industrial Revolution by stopping people from moving to cities.

Shipping goods from place to place increased in price to cover the price of building these machines.

Travel for humans became much more difficult and expensive.

Coal

Wind

Gasoline

Water

Cottages could hold the machines for textiles, however, most cottages could not afford to power the machine.

The workers had better working conditions in the factories.

Large, expensive machines had to be housed in factories rather than at home where previous textile tools were used.

The quality of work on machines was a vast improvement over the low quality of work done by workers in the factories.

The work was repetitive and boring. It often resulted in people falling asleep on the job.

Though work was dangerous, factories set up sick and injured leave for those who needed it.

Workers spent long hours in the factories, often fourteen hours a day, six days a week.

Workers under the age of 15 were not hired to work in the factories because owners did not want the children to get hurt around the dangerous

It was more expensive to send older people back to school for more education.

The factory owners would be able to make more money by paying children less.

The older people already had jobs and did not want to be trained for new ones

It was easier to train younger workers a new skill than it was to train an older worker

Great Britain had the factors of production needed for industrialization.

Napoleon refused to allow any new ideas to be implemented on continental Europe.

Since the Middle Ages, Great Britain was the leader of innovations and ideas.

They had raw materials, like cotton, wool, and flax, readily available from their colonies.

They decreased the amount of food each individual farmer could produce

They drove up the price of crops because there were less crops available for people to buy

Encouraged more people to become farmers because they could earn more money doing less work

Forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or move to the cities

Causing people to give up farming and search for jobs in cities

Forcing people to migrate to new countries

Making people move closer to sources of water

Spreading industrialization across the European continent

The Industrial Revolution

The Enclosure Movement

The French Revolution

The invention of the water frame

dependence on subsistence agriculture

capture of foreign lands

creation of a one-crop economy

availability of investment capital

The urban upper class

The urban working class

The urban middle class

The rural upper class

Slaves were no longer needed

The need for slaves increased

Farmers stopped growing cotton

Cotton production decreased