WH - Industrial Revolution e.s.

A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.

• Cartel

• Corporation

• Factory

• Urbanization

In which European country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• France

• Britian

• Prussia

• Spain

Some of the machines invented in the 18th and 19th centuries are:

• telephones, geographic positioning system, radios, airplanes

• steam engine, railroads, flying shuttle, phonograph, steam ships, light bulb

• sailboats, automobiles, wheel barrels, clocks, word processors

• automatic washer, hair dryer, rockets, space shuttles

Transportation in the 1800s was revolutionized by the development of the

• caravel

• astrolabe

• airplane

• steam engine

A major reason the Industrial Revolution developed in Great Britain in the 1700s was because of Great Britain’s

• geographic features

• immigration policies

• use of collectivization

• access to imported oil

During the Industrial Revolution, locating factories near concentrations of natural resources and transportation routes most directly promoted

• annexations and unequal treaties

• migration and urbanization

• legislative reforms and formation of unions

• communal fields and the domestic system

Before the Industrial Revolution, items were made by hand. What was this called?

• Market System

• Cottage Industries

• Factory System

• Interchangeable Parts

Which of the following resources were important for Great Britain's industrial revolution

• Canals

• Rivers

• Coal

• Iron

• all of them

Which invention is most closely associated with the Industrial Revolution?

• The telephone

• The steam engine

• The computer

• The airplane

Who invented the spinning jenny, a key development in the textile industry?

• James Hargreaves

• Richard Arkwright

• Samuel Crompton

• Eli Whitney