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the Ind. Rev
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are three factors that tenements did not provide? | Sunlight, plumbing, and electricity. |
| What sort of condition were the tenements in? | Horrible, overcrowded, filthy, filled with disease. |
| What were factories like during the Industrial Revolution? | Stuffy, unhealthy, dangerous, child and women labor. |
| What are the three factors of production? | Land, labor, and capital. |
| What kind of condition was the suburban area in? | Nice, sunlight, trees, books, plumbing, electricity, WEALTHY! |
| What was Urbanization? | The growth of cities. |
| What was the business district like? | Filled with thievery, crime, violence, police, marketplace. Lower, middle, and upper class citizens. |
| Which labor group got paid the most in factories? | The men. |
| What major event led to a food surplus in Great Britain in the early 1700s? | Agricultural Revolution |
| Which 3 major advancements took place during the Agricultural Revolution? | Crop Rotation, Invention of Farm Machinery, & Improved mass breeding practice of livestock |
| This event in the mid-1700s marked the decline in the need for hand (muscle) power and increased the demand for machine power, thus creating factories? | The Industrial Revolution |
| What was women and child labor? | The practical enslavement of women and children to work in factories without fair compensation |
| What is rural-to-urban migration? | The movement of people from the countryside and farmlands to big towns and cities. |
| What is the Combination Law? | The act that prevented unlawful combinations of workers |
| What is the enclosure movement? | Proccess that ended some traditional rights. |
| What is mass production? | Production in large quantities. |
| Explain Laissez-Faire | Prevents government from interfering in commercial affairs |
| What is the Rise of Unions? | The increasing creations of groups that interest mostly in political business and protest. |
| What is rise of suburbanization? | Increase in change of cities to suburbs, dull and ordinary towns. |
| Describe increase in standard of living? | Increase of wealth and material available to a persons or community |
| Name 3 positive consequences of the Industrial Revolution? | Increase of Standard of Living, Mass Production, New Technology |
| What are 3 negative consequences of the Industrial Revolution? | Pollution, women and child labor, money |
| Why did the Cottage Industry decline? | Rise of machines, cottage industry could'nt match the fast production of factory machinery |
| What are consequences of Mass Production? | They could not sell all the food they made and the food would go bad. |
| What were the reasons for infant mortality deaths? | There was more food for them so they lived longer. |
| What were specific examples of Great Britains factor of production : labor | Machines, child and women labor. |
| What were specific examples of Great Britains factor of production: land | Lumber |
| What were specific examples of Great Britains factor of production: capital | Money |
| What was the nickname for Great Britain? | The Textile Nation of the World |
| How did the factory workers wages go from greatest to least? | Men, Women, Children |