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WorksheetsWk3 - Richard Arkwrights Success - Yr8
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is the name of a factory that produces a particular type of material?
a cottage
a mill
Arkwright
water frame
How did Arkwright get successful?
Arkwright invented the 'spinning frame'
He got a patent to protect his invention
He built the first factory in Cromford
He found workers by building cottages
He expanded his business and got very very wealthy
When did Arkwright build his first factory?
1751
1761
1781
1771
What made Arkwright's cotton mills successful and productive?
Improved organisation and management of production
Advanced machinery that used electricity
Skilled workers from foreign countries
Large money investment from other people
Arkwright saw the potential to make (a) and he went into partnership with (b) businessmen. He used his partners’ money to get a (c) .
Match the Information together
They filled up the factories and they could be operated by children.
Water Frame
It enabled Arkwright to centralise the machines and workers into one space
The Factory
This legally protected Arkwright’s design so no-one could copy his invention.
A Patent
This meant whole families could move to work at the factory and there was space for everyone.
Building Cottages
These were 2/3rds of his employees and he would not employ them under the age of 6.
Children
Why did Arkwright get a patent?
It was cheap to get at the time and helped him to get more workers.
He copied the design for the 'water frame' from someone else and had to protect himself.
Because his friends also got them for their designs.
It legally protected his design and allowed him to take money from people who copied his design.
Tick the correct answers about the domestic system
Before the 1750s most work was done in cottages by skilled craftsmen by hand
They used steam powered machines to make textiles
Workers could choose when they wanted to work
All the work was done under one roof so that the managers could watch them
Tick the correct answers about the factory system
Most workers were unskilled children. They were small so could fit inside the machines
Most factories were open 24hrs and workers had to work long 12hr shifts at specific times
Most workers moved from urban areas to rural areas
128 bobbins of thread could be produced at the same time by each machine
Why did Richard Arkwright become unpopular? Tick all the correct answers
He demanded that people paid him if he thought that they had taken his design
He took away a lot of land from families and other people in the country
Some people claimed that he had ‘borrowed’ his ideas from other inventors
He fired a lot of employees when he got angry and a lot of people lost their jobs
