WorksheetsL6 - Living Conditions of the Industrial Revolution
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What was a tenement?
A multistory buildings built by the government divided into crowded apartments.
An infection of the skin which results from poor hygiene practices
A single story building used to home factory workers
An innovated and well managed skyscraper used to house factory workers.
Which of these groups of people were not considered to be in the middle class?
Factory Managers
Merchants
Factory Owners,
Doctors and Lawyers
Supervisors
The Upper Class consisted mostly of...
Nobles or people who were born into high social standing
People who developed new inventions.
Factory owners and managers
People who lived in high rise buildings
Which water-born disease devastated the lower class?
Chlamydia
Cholera
Colorado Tick Fever (CTF)
Chickenpox
In 1842, a British government study stated the average life span for working-class people in one large city to be what?
17
12
23
19
What living conditions did the working class face in the industrial revolution? (select 4)
No Sanitary codes
Workers lived in dark, dirty shelters
Sickness was widespread
Whole families crowding into one bedroom
Constantly house changes to prevent disease spreading.
Is this statement true? "At the end of the court passage is a privy without a door, so dirty that the inhabitants can pass into and out of the court only by passing through foul pools of stagnant urine and excrement.”
True
False
What is this an example of?
Tenement
Middle Class Accomodation
Upper Class Accomodation
State Housing
A centralised workforce lives near where?
Their place of work
The country
The city
Their friends and family
True or False: Working class families would often live in damp, dark cellars?
True
False
