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INDUSTRIAL R
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What major event led to a food surplus in Great Britain in the early 1700s? | Agricultural revoloution |
| Which 3 major advancements took place during the Agricultural revolution? | crop rotation, invention of farm machineary, improved mass breeding practice on livestock |
| This event in the mid 1700s marked the decline in the need for muscle power and increased the demand for machine power, thus creating factories. | The Industrial Revolution |
| What are the three factors of production? | Land, labor ,Capital |
| What was one of the farming machines that was produced from the Agricultural revolution? | The seed drill |
| What was the enclosure movement? | The buying of small farms by capitalists to create large farms. |
| Where did most of the farmers go during the Rural to urban migration? | Most farmers moved away from their farms into cities. |
| What is the definition of land in terms of the factors of production? | Resources ex. coal, waterways |
| What is the defintion of labor in terms of the factors of production? | Individuals available for work |
| What is the definition of capital in terms of the factors of production? | money available for investment |
| What is laissez faire? | A type of government where the business owners are in control ( lazy government) |
| What was one result of the factories being built? | skilled workers lost money, increase in pollution, crime, child labor..etc |
| what is mass production? | making a large amount of the same product |
| What was the result of mass production? | The items that were mass produced costed less money than the products made by skilled workers |
| What increased the standard of living during this time? | The mass production of products |
| What industry decreased during the Industrial Revolution? | The Cottage Industry |
| What was the reason that infant mortality deaths decreased? | Food Surplus |
| What were some of the factory conditions during this time? | dirty, snuffy, cramped, no windows, 13 hr shifts, child labor..etc |
| How long did children and women work on average a day? | 12-13 hours |
| what does urbanization mean? | the growth of cities |
| what are unions? | group of workers who get together to fight for better wages, working conditions, and for the bosses to listen to them |
| what did the Combination laws do? | made unions illegal |
| Who was payed the most money? men ,women or chilren. | Men |
| where was the business district located? | in the urban area. |
| How many windows did a tenement room have? | 1 |
| How many people stayed on average in a tenement room? | 30-40 people |
| Who lived in the suburban areas? | wealthy an middle class |
| What did the suburan area have that the urban area didnt? | grass and trees |
| Name a positive result of this revolution | The government earned money from the businesses |
| name a negative result of this revolution | caused a great deal of pollution |