Intro to Industrial Revolution Quiz

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods

• Agricultural Revolution

• French Revolution

• Textile Industry

• Industrial Revolution

An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban areas

• urbanization

• de-urbanization

• Empire State of Mind

• City Upscaling

Man who made vast improvements on the steam engine which revolutionized how machinery operated

• Richard Trevithick

• James Watt

• JJ Watt

• James Boulton

A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers

• Upper Class

• Middle Class

• Working Class

• History Class

claiming land for personal usage

• enclosures

• canals

• Property Brothers Inc.

• urbanization

a system that used powered machinery, division of labor, unskilled workers, and a centralized workplace to mass-produce products

• Mills

• Wool Shops

• Cottage Industry

• Factories

Placed limits on child labor

• 1833 Factory Act

• Manifest Destiny

• 1866 Factory Act

• Communist Manifesto

What was life like for a child worker?

• Easy, they barely lifted a finger and got paid very well

• Long hours, little pay, and hazardous conditions

• Decent hours with a livable pay. Conditions were not great

• Children were not allowed to work

What were living conditions like in Victorian England?

• Everybody suffered disgusting and very poor conditions

• Working class people lived in dirty slums with poor housing but the middle/upper class was doing alright

• Everything was sanitized and life couldn't be better

Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution

• Textile Industry

• Industrialization

• Cottage Industry

• Mills