The beginnings of the Industrial Revolution

Before the Industrial Revolution, most people lived on __________.

• cities
• factories
• small farms
• apartments

What is the Industrial Revolution?

• a change from making things by machines to making them by hand
• a change from making things by hand to making them by machines in factories
• a shift from a monarchy to a democracy
• a shift from old order to new order

Who invented the telegraph?

• Eli Whitney
• Henry Ford
• Samuel Morse
• Thomas Edison

the increase in agricultural yields led to

• a population increase
• a population decrease
• no change in the population

Why was crop rotation such an important farming technique?

• it helped to keep the soil fertile
• it planted seeds in a straight line
• it enclosed all the common land so peasants had to move to the cities
• in water the crops

a time when new inventions and techniques made farming faster and easier is known as the 

• The French Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Mechanical Revolution
• The Agricultural Revolution

What country did the Agricultural Revolution begin?

• France
• Spain
• The United States
• Great Britain

What was the invention that planted seeds in a straight line?

• Crop Rotation
• Seed Drill
• Enclosure Movement
• Mechanization

This machine allowed factories to be built anywhere, powered by coal.

• flying shuttle
• steam engine
• spinning jenny
• cotton gin

Who invented the steam engine?

• Eli Whitney
• James Watt
• Jethro Tull
• Isaac Newton