AP 08 - Industrial Revolution - Spielvogel Ch 20

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Historians generally agree that the Industrial Revolution began

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sometime after 1750

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Britain's emergence as a first industrial power was aided by all of the following EXCEPT: a rapid population growth and a surplus pool of labor, the agricultural revolution of the eighteenth century, a ready supply of domestic and colonial markets, a developed financial system.

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Parliament's heavy and controlling involvement in private enterprise

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The Industrial Revolution in Britain was largely inspired by: entrepreneurs who sought and accepted the new profitable manufacturing methods

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entrepreneurs who sought and accepted the new profitable manufacturing methods

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The infrastructure advantages in Britain promoting rapid industrialization included all of the following EXCEPT: canals, roads, bridges, railroads.

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internal customs posts

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The water frame spinning machine was invented by

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Richard Arkwright.

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Britain's cotton industry in the late eighteenth century

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was responsible for the creation of the first modern factories

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James Watt was vital to the Industrial Revolution for his invention of

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a rotary engine that could spin and weave cotton.

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The development of the railroads in the Industrial Revolution was important in

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increasing British supremacy in civil and mechanical engineering.

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The new set of values established by factory owners during the Industrial Revolution

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relegated the worker to a life of harsh discipline and the rigors of competitive wage labor

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The rise of the industrial factory system deeply affected the lives and status of workers who now

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no longer owned the means of economic production and could only sell their labor for a wage