Core Knowledge 6 - Industrial Revolution SET A

Early factories hired children because:

• They could be paid less.

• They were easy to replace.

• They did dangerous work that adults refused to do.

• Their moms told them to do it.

• Children were more fun to work with.

James Watt perfected the steam ______________.

_____________ became an important new energy source in the 1700's.

Most of the factory workers were ___________________.

The free ____________ was a system based on competition between privately owned businesses offering similar product or service.

During the enclosure movement, small fields were combined to make larger _____________.

• marketplaces

• housing

• farms

• opportunities

• parks

The gap between the rich and poor increased during _____________.

• the fair market

• the time of enclosure

• Industrial Revolution

• Pestilence of Times

Adam Smith was interested in the following ideas:

• younger child workers

• supply and demand

• division of labor

• enclosures

• free markets

Capital is money invested to make _________ ____________.

Many problems faced factory workers living in the cities including:

• too many children

• poverty (being poor)

• crime

• disease