Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living

Before the Industrial Revolution all products were created by...

• AI

• Hand

• Machines

• Royalty

According to pessimists, the standard of living for workers____________ as a result of the Industrial Revolution.

• ROSE

• DECLINED

What is the term for money income adjusted for the cost of living, but not for effects of things such as health, longevity, unemployment, pollution, the condition of women and children, urban crowding, and the amount of leisure time?

• Real Income

• Government Income

• Take Home Income

• Before Tax Income

True or False: Wages were higher in English cities than in the countryside,

• True

• False

The Industrial Revolution happening during the _____ and the ____.

• 1700s -1800's

• 1500's- 1600's

• 1300's- 1400's

• 1900's- 2000's

True or False: Most economic historians agree that the distribution of income became more unequal between 1790 and 1840.

• True

• False

is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.

• Strike

• Petition the Owner

• Shut down

• Burn the machines

True or False: As a result of the Industrial Revolution, the population grew immensely in Great Britain.

• true

• false

All of the following were reasons that added to the slow growth in the standard of living except....

i

• frequent wars (the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812)

• bad harvests

• high taxes

• tuberculosis

True or False: British income per person DROPPED significantly from 1760 to -1860.

• True

• False