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INDUSTRIAL REEV
Flash Card
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What causes caused the industrial revolution? | They started to have a food surplus. Then they started coming up with inew ideas about farming equipment. |
| What major event led to a food surplus in Great Britain in the early 1700's | Agricultural Revolution |
| Which three major advancements took place during the Agricultural Revolution? | Crop rotation, Invention of Farm Machinery, and Improved mass breeding practice of livestock. |
| What are some examples of factors of production?: labor | Great britain had Woman & Children workers, people that would dig for iron ore and coal. |
| What was a few outcomes of the factor of production for the capital? | Rich people started to buy up all the farm land. Which made farmers move to the city were they got jobs at factories. |
| What are a few examples of the factor of production for land? | They started to find iron ore and coal, then they started to make mines out of them. Then they started to cut down trees and use the lumber to build things like houses and many other things. |
| This event in the mid-1700's marked the decline of in the need for hand (muscle) power and increased the demand for machine power, thus creating factories? | The Industrial Revolution |
| What were some conditions of the factories? | They smelt really bad,no windows, it was always hot and muggy in there.You would only get food ounce a day. People were always crammed up, there was very poor wages. It was very dangerous to operate the machines. |
| What was the enclosure movement? | It was rich people that would buy up farms and send farmers into the city and the farmers would end up getting jobs there. |
| What was Laissez-Faire? | Was when the goverment would let the people (buisness owners) do what ever they got to do to make money. |
| What was the reason for the increase on the standard of living? | People started get fat and happy and getting comfortable and started to populate more... |
| Why was they're a rise in suburbanization? | Rich people started to decide that they did not want to live in the middle of the city with all the poor people and filth, so they moved to the outskirts of cities. |
| what were the suburban conditions like? | They lived around trees clean water and clean air had some land and they could see the sun there wasn't no factory pollution (smoke) above they're heads. |
| What are tenements? | Tenements were giant buildings with little apartment rooms usually stuffed with 30 to 40 people that worked in the same factory. |
| What were some tenement conditions? | They had to wash they're face with the same pot they used for they're duty. the buildings were so tall u couldn't see the sun in the alley's you also lived next to a factory that was very polluted. Also there was mice that carry diseases that kill you. |
| What were the factors of production? | They were land labor and capital. |
| What was the Rural-to-Urban Migration? | It was when farmers would move to the cities to get jobs at factories. |
| Why was they're a decline in the Cottage Industry? | There were more and more factories coming out with machines so people were giving up hand labor work for easier work. |
| What was the Business District? | The Business District was all on one street that had pretty much everything you needed in every store you would visit. |
| What were the factory wages for, men, women, and children? | For men 22-26 they made 17 shilling. Women ages 22-26 made 8 shilling. Children 11-16 made 4 shilling. |
| What is Urbanization? | It is the growth of cities and factories. |
| What was Mass Production? | Mass Production is when you over produce something that people need and make the price lower. |
| What was one one Consequence of Mass Production? | It increased the Standard of Living. |
| What were Factories? | Factories were normally 2 stories tall didn't have very many windows and if they did have windows they never usually opened. They were unsafe and stuffy, and it was very dangerous to work with a machine. |
| What were some positive consequences to the Industrial Revolution? | It made Mass Production, it gave us a food surplus, and it brought new ideas into our agriculture, like new technologies. new ways of living and so on. |
| What were some negative Consequences to the Industrial Revolution? | The new Technologies like machines was really dangerous to operate the machine also took the job of usually at least, 4 to 5 men. The Enclosure Movement made most small farmers go out of business. |
| What was the combination law? | An act to prevent unlawful combinations of workmen. |
| What was Women and Child Labor like? | They didn't get payed a lot they worked for a long time period. They were cheaper to pay then men, There was always another Women or Child ready to replace someone if they got hurt. |
| What is the Industrial Revolution? | The Industrial Revolution was a time where new ideas, machines, new ways of living, textile industries, and factories started to be created. |
| What was the Agricultural Revolution? | Agricultural Revolution was a time in where Great Britain found new ways of farming and new technologies which led to the Industrial Revolution. |
| What was the rise of Unions? | The making of political groups. |