U4L4 The Industrial Revolution

Before complex machines could manufacture lots of things, how were most things made?

• Slowly, one at a time, by hand

• Quickly with everyone working on a small part

Is making things by hand easy? Can anyone do it?

• No, making things by hand takes time and lots of skill

• It's pretty easy just watch a youtube video or something

John Kay's flying shuttle made it possible to do what?

• Weavers could produce cloth faster

• Workers could fly to work

• Cotton bolls were processed faster

• Use steam to power machines

The spinning jenny allowed people to

• make thread faster

• have fun dancing

• invent the merry go round

• turn water into steam

The cotton gin was for

• getting seeds out of cotton bolls

• alcoholic consumption

• weaving threads

• making cloth

After the factories making cloth switched from water to _______ power they produced goods even faster.

• steam

• electric

• wind

• solar

People who own or pay for businesses are called

• capitalists

• communists

• clergy

• commoners

When cheap factory-made goods took over the market, smaller non factory businesses

• struggled and failed

• also did well

• stayed about the same

Just over 200 years ago, most people

• Lived in the country & worked on farms

• lived in the city and worked in factories

• lived by the ocean and went fishing

• lived near mountains and dug for metals

New machines for farm work meant that many workers

• lost their jobs

• learned how to use the machines

• would repair the machines