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Industrial Revoluti

The advancement of machines.

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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 the buying of farms and putting a perimeter around the large area called? Enclosure movement.
What was the moving from country/farm lifestyle to city life called? Rural-to-Urban migration.
What was the advancement of machines called? The Industrial Revolution.
What are the three factors of production? Land, labor, and capital.
What were some of the "land" properties? Coal, steel, and cotton.
What were some of the "labor" properties? Cottage industry, hand (muscle) labor.
What type of government did they demonstrate during this time? Laissez-Faire.
What darkened the skies in Britain? Factories.
When they moved out of the cottage industries, what did they advance into? Mass Production.
What were the consequenses of mass production? Lesser pays, longer working hours.
What was the standard living of the people working inside of the factories? Poor living conditions.
What happened to the cottage industry? Lesser people worked out of their homes, therefore had a deep decline in cottage industries.
What was the reason for the decrease in infant deaths during this time period? There was more work, which meant more food, which meant more people being able to keep their children happy and healthy.
What were the factory conditions? Long hours, enclosed spaces, unhealthy.
What was the overworking of the women and children in the factories? Women & child labor.
What was the growth of the cities? Urbanizations.
In attack of the wrongful conditions the factories had, what were created to fight for equal rights? Unions.
How were the people paid unjustly? The men had higher rates than the women and children did, hence why they hired more women and children then they did men.
What law did they pass to help prohibit unions? Combination Law.
What was the business district, and what were the conditions there? The conditions in the business district were middle to good, though prostitutes hung out there regularly for an expensive date, and there was crime going on there from the lower-class people who needed the money/food.
Who lived in the "tenements"? The factory workers, or poor people, lived in the tenements.
What were the tenements like? Poor conditions, no plumbing, no electric, 30-40 people living in one room.
Where did the richer people live during this time? They'd lived on the outskirts of the town, away from the dirty roads and the factories.
What was this moving out of town called? Suburbanization.
What were the suburb conditions? Single family homes, clear skies, grass.
What kinds of people lived there? Middle-class to upper-class lived there.
What were the positive consequences to the Industrial Revolution? The people prospered during this time, the food surplus keeping everybody "fat and happy."
What were the negative consequenses of the Industrial Revolution? There was a lot of pollution, advancements in crime and poverty.
What were the advancements of crops in the 1700's? Agricultural Revolution.
What was the causes of the Agricultural Revolution? Greedy, rich people who decided to buy up the little farms and close them up, causing the "Enclosure Movement."
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