WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 23 LESSON 1

WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 23 LESSON 1

The Industrial Revolution

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• How can innovation affect ways of life?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following helped make Great Britain the starting place for the Industrial Revolution?

• improved transportation

• more open farmland

• fewer peasant farmers

• smaller crops

Multiple Choice

Why were Britain's entrepreneurs successful in starting businesses, and thus the Industrial Revolution?

• Entrepreneurs had money to invest in new businesses.

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• .British entrepreneurs were good at inventing new machinery.

• The British people allowed the entrepreneurs to take advantage of them.

• Britain's entrepreneurs controlled all the natural resources

Multiple Choice

What did the spinning jenny produce?

• more jobs for British workers

• fewer steps in the making of cloth

• more work for the cottage industries

• more thread than weavers could use

Multiple Choice

How did the steam engine change the entire factory system when textiles were being produced?

• Steamboats carried raw materials from factory to factory, bringing needed materials for manufacturing.

• The work became much quieter, so people didn't mind living near factories.

• Factories spread all over the country, close to workers.

• Less material was created in each factory.

Multiple Choice

One of the first important products for Britain's manufacturers was

• cheaply produced food.

• cotton cloth.

• railroad cars.

• water-powered looms.

Multiple Choice

The iron industry expanded during the Industrial Revolution because

• iron was used to build trains and railroads.

• coal was burned to create high-quality iron.

• there were few impurities in pig iron.

• factory owners preferred to use iron over coal.

Multiple Choice

How did factories change society in order to make the Industrial Revolution a success?

• Factories created a new labor class and a system of shift work that kept the machines running nonstop.

• Society changed in order to encourage people to work in dangerous conditions.

• Women and children became successful by working for high pay.

• People became perfectly disciplined workers who never made mistakes.

Open Ended

Analyzing PRIMARY SOURCE

Children in Factories

On the conditions of child factory workers:

“Provided a child should be drowsy, the overlooker walks round the room . . . and he touches the child on the shoulder, and says, ‘Come here.’ In the corner of the room there is an iron cistern; it is filled with water . . . he takes this boy, and holding him up by the legs, dips him over head in the cistern, and sends him to work for the remainder of the day. . . . ”

—from a British Parliament report, quoted in The History of the Factory Movement, Vol I, 1857

DBQ MAKING INFERENCES Why might the British Parliament have examined the conditions of child factory workers?

Multiple Choice

What was one result of extreme urbanization?

• more money and food for all

• a need for urban reform

• more frequent wars

• reduced population