The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution began in which country?

• Britain

• France

• The United States

• Germany

How did merchants become wealthy?

• The lottery

• The invention of banks

• Products produced by slave labour

• Sailing internationally

Which was not a factor that made the Industrial Revolution possible?

• The growth of scientific experiment

• Guilds became powerful

• Greater international spending power

• The acquisition of vast natural resources

What best describes the economy before the Industrial Revolution?

• Small town farming in rural areas

• Pre-slavery era

• Deteriorated cities with uneducated inhabitants

• The French Revolution

Common land refers to?

• A village that housed all the factories

• An area for the poor to live

• No man's land

• The area where a community could graze their cattle and farm vegetables

The domestic system was also referred to as?

• Common land

• Cottage industries

• Cloth housing

• Guild system

What was essential in the growth of factories?

• A reduction in the poor population

• Large numbers of wage-earning workers

• A decrease in agricultural production

• Slavery

The domestic system involved?

• Clothing and textiles made at home by the family members

• Manufacturing goods in factories

• Rural mills that created products

• Mass production

Which British Ports became wealthy because of import and export taxes?

• Rotterdam and Antwerp

• Suez Canal and other Mediterranean ports

• Manchester, London and Dunkirk

• Bristol, Liverpool and London

The common land was replaced with what?

• A British nature reserve

• Factories

• Enclosures

• Towns and cities