Global Transformations of the Industrial Revolutions

What is the main topic of the text?

• The Industrial Revolution in Britain
• The consequences of industrialization for different people around the world
• The impact of industrialization on global commodities
• The reforms that resulted from the Industrial Revolution

What were the main innovations of the Industrial Revolution?

• Nut, bolts, and wires
• Agricultural advances
• Coal, steam engines, cheap cotton clothes, steel
• Shiny new tech

Why did the Industrial Revolution destroy communities and culture?

• Because patterns of rural life were shattered by so many people moving to cities to work in factories
• Because it brought new wealth and opportunity to the wealthy and middle-class people in northwestern Europe
• Because it improved conditions for the middle class, but mostly enriched a few at the expense of the many
• Because it opened up new horizons for new people

What was one of the few opportunities for women to improve their financial status during the Industrial Revolution?

• Agriculture;
• Domestic service;
• Textile production in factories;
• Spinning textiles for use at home;

What were the reform movements that resulted from the Industrial Revolution fighting for?

• To push children out of factories and into public education, a minimum wage, safe working conditions, and an eight-hour work day;
• To extract more raw materials from colonized countries;
• To bring back extended family networks and the stability of rural life;
• To keep the working poor in their dismal life of exploitation as wage laborers