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World studies, agricultural revoultion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What major event led to a food surplus in Great Britian in the early 1700s? | Agricultural Revolution |
| The industrial Revolution led to what movement that invlolved capitalists buying lots of small farms, enclosing them and making them into large farms? | Enclosure Movement |
| The enclosure movement led to a migration in which farmers moved from their farms to the city, what was this migration called? | Rural- to- Urban migration |
| What was the radical change toward the use of machines that occured in Great Britian in the mid-1700s. | Industrial Revolution |
| These factors of production are essential in mass producing products, and Great Britian possessed them. What are they? | Land, labor, capital |
| Great Britian had the colonies which provided it with cotton, land and other things, and also Great Britian had a lot of coal. These are example of what factor of production? | Land(resources) |
| Great Britian had a large population which gave them which factor of production? | Labor |
| The economy was stable in Great Britian, so they easily had enough money to do what they wanted, which factor of production is this? | Capital |
| Great Britian's government technically let the entrepueners do what they wanted ( "hands off government") What was this type of government called? | Laissez- Faire |
| These buildings sprung up in the Urban areas, and where essential for mass producing products. | Factories |
| This involves producing large amounts of items in a short period of time. The quantity goes up, but the quality goes down. | Mass production |
| Mass production led to a few things happening. The cost of products went down which allowed poor people to buy more food. In order to mass produce you really didn't need any strong men to work, women and children could work. Food surpluses. | Mass production consequences. |
| Mass proudcing led to an icrease in the way people lived. What was this called? | Increase in Standard of Living |
| With factories popping up and work being so easy that children and women could do it, which business began to decline rapidly? | Cottage industry |
| Food surplus was a major cause for a decrease in what? | Infant mortality deaths. |
| Dirty, hot and damp, stuffy, no windows, crowded, smelly, woman and child labor, low wages, long hours and dangerous are all conditions of what? | Factories |
| This is dangerous, and they get little to no wages. Factory owners prefer hiring them because they don't have to pay them as much as they would a man. | Women and Child labor |
| Factories, business districts, tenament building, mass production, and job creation are all results of what? | Urbanization |
| Since men were no longer needed for the hard homemade jobs when factories began to open, this made them very upset and led to what? | Rise of Unions |
| This law stated that anyone found in Unions would either be sent to Australia, or be hung. | Combination Law |
| Men (22-26 years): 17 shillings Women (22-26 years): 8 shillings Children (11-16 years): 4 shillings | Factory wages |
| With a lot of people coming into Urban areas for work, around the factories came places that sold food, books, drinks, and other different products. What is this? | Business districts |
| Factory owners built these bulildings as places for their workers to stay, but the conditons were terrible. What were they called? | Tenement buildings |
| In the tenement buildings, there were about 40 people in one room, there was only one window, waste filled the streets below and there were extreme dangerous hazards. | Tenement conditions |
| When all of the poor moved in, and factories polluted the area, the middle and upper class began to move out of the area and to suburbs. | Rise of surbanization |
| In the suburbs, the air was clean, there was single family homes, there was electricity and plumbing, trees were around and it was generally a lot nicer. | Suburb conditions |
| The Industrial Revolution was a big positive, because it led to more people eating, mass producing, and an improvement in technology. | Positives of the Industrial Revolution |
| With the Industrial Revolution, a lot of men went out of business, cities became overcrowded and polluted, and childer started working long, dangerous shifts. | Negative of Industrial Revolution |
| Which 3 major advancements took place during the Agricultural Revolution? | Crop Rotation, Invention of Farm Machinery, and improved mass breeding practice of livestock. |
| This event in the mid- 1700s marked the decline in the need for hand(muscle) power and increased demand for machine power, thus creating factories? | The Industial Revolution |