Industrial Revolution

This economy is controlled completely by the government

• traditional
• command
• market
• mixed

Family life prior to the industrial revolution was focused on what?

• working in factories
• travel
• farming
• hunting and gathering

What inventions contributed to population growth during the Industrial Revolution?

• Seed Drill, Metal Plow, Crop Rotation
• Seed Drill, Spinning Jenny, Steam Engine
• Cotton Gin, Metal Plow, Water Loom
• Crop Rotation, Water Loom, Cotton Gin

What is urbanization?

• movement of people to farms
• movement of people to cities
• movement of people to other countries
• movement of people to Canada

The Agricultural Revolution was essential to Britain's industrialization because

• many of the resulting new inventions could be used in factories
• it destroyed the cottage industry.
• it greatly increased cotton production
• it freed up the labor needed to work in factories.

What natural resource led to industrialization in Great Britain?

• water
• coal
• wind
• sun

Large deposits of iron and coal near the surface provided Great Britain with raw materials.  The British Empire and its mercantilist economic system (colonies) provided valuable sources of raw materials.  A plethora of navigable waters and streams in Britain.  Britain had a stable government and established banking system. Britain was further blessed with a large and mobile work force. 

What can be concluded from the information above?

• Great Britain would have benefited from more colonies
• Great Britain had all of the factors needed for production
• Great Britain was not a successful nation at the time
• Great Britain was not ready for industrialization

What impact did the invention of the train have on the world?

• factories were made more efficient
• people and products could not be transported efficiently
• people and products could be transported more efficiently
• there was no impact on society

There was a large increase in the exportation of cotton goods between 1780 and 1787.  Why?

• inventions such the spinning jenny, steam engine, and metal plow
• inventions such the steam engine, seed drill and spinning jenny
• inventions such the water wheel, seed drill, and the power loom
• inventions such the spinning jenny, cotton gin, and the power loom

Centralized workplace, unskilled laborers, standardized parts, division of labor, mass production of goods, machine based operation.  

The characteristics above are describing which of the following?

• Factory System
• Subsistence Economy
• Textile Industry
• Cottage Industry