WorksheetsCore Knowledge 6 - Industrial Revolution SET A
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
Early factories hired children because:
They could be paid less.
They were easy to replace.
They did dangerous work that adults refused to do.
Their moms told them to do it.
Children were more fun to work with.
James Watt perfected the steam (a) .
(a) became an important new energy source in the 1700's.
Most of the factory workers were (a) .
The free (a) was a system based on competition between privately owned businesses offering similar product or service.
During the enclosure movement, small fields were combined to make larger _____________.
marketplaces
housing
farms
opportunities
parks
The gap between the rich and poor increased during _____________.
the fair market
the time of enclosure
Industrial Revolution
Pestilence of Times
Adam Smith was interested in the following ideas:
younger child workers
supply and demand
division of labor
enclosures
free markets
Capital is money invested to make _________ ____________.
(a)
Many problems faced factory workers living in the cities including:
too many children
poverty (being poor)
crime
disease
After the 1500's, European population (a) .
Which statement describes mercantilism?
To each according to his needs.
The government should not try to control the market.
Workers of the world, unite.
A country can grow rich by controlling trade.
These inventions helped people make cloth faster and more easily:
spinning jenny
water frame
hairpin curls
cotton gins
Who wrote novels describing the hard life of many people in England in the 1800s?
Friedrich Engels
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
Jane Austen
The (a) were famous for destroying factories and machines.
How was life changed during the Industrial Revolution of Europe and are you able to write a short paragraph about it?
Yes
No
