What was the result of the development of power steamboats and locomotives?
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.
How did transportation affect the Industrial Revolution?
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.
During the Industrial Revolution, what fuel was used to power new transportation?
Coal
Wind
Gasoline
Water
How did the development of industry lead to the decline of cottage industry (Domestic System)?
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.
What were the working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution?
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
Whose houses are reflected in this picture?
Middle Class.
Upper Class.
Slum Class.
Working Class.
Why would capitalists want to hire so many people from ages 6-19?
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
Why was England the first nation to industrialize?
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.
How did the following developments of the Agricultural Revolution affect people? • Enclosure movement • Crop rotation • Advanced agricultural technology
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
The Industrial Revolution impacted rural-to-urban migration by…
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
What do the following events describe? • Wealth landowners take over land • Food production increases • Displaced farmers move to the cities
What were the major causes of these changes in England?
The Industrial Revolution
The Enclosure Movement
The French Revolution
The invention of the water frame
Which condition is most necessary to the process of industrialization in a society?
dependence on subsistence agriculture
capture of foreign lands
creation of a one-crop economy
availability of investment capital
What class did the Industrial Revolution create?
The urban upper class
The urban working class
The urban middle class
The rural upper class
The women depicted in the picture was probably from the
Upper urban class
Upper rural class
Middle class
Working class
What was a result of the invention of the cotton gin?
Slaves were no longer needed
The need for slaves increased
Farmers stopped growing cotton
Cotton production decreased
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