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industrial revolutio
Chapter 9/ Section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does REVOLUTION mean.. | A sudden or complete change |
| Before the industrial revolution took place, what do most people do to survive? | All the people were farmers |
| Where did the industrial revolution begin? | Britain(1700's) |
| List three inventions that quickened the textile or cloth industry. | Lume,water fring, and spinning jenny |
| What is the factory system? | the method of producing goods that brought workers and machinery together in one place. |
| Who was credited in bringing the Industrial Revolution to America and how did he "pull it off" when Britain had such strict laws? | Samel Slater knew the law could not be enforced some boarded a ship to America. |
| Why did the factory and mill owners hire women and children? | Because the men where working in the farms. |
| Describe the conditions that workers faced in the factories and mills. | They had small wages, long hours, and worked long hours all round. They also smoked and wer e in healing too much fumes. |
| How does Eli Whitney's invention of interchangeable parts work? | the invention would speed up goods made by having machines manufacture each part. |
| What is urbanization? | movement of population from farms to cities. |
| List at least 3 disadvantages of growing in these cities. | Everyone was throwing trash on the ground, fires stated very quickly, no sewers, diseases spreaded rapidly. |
| List at Least 3 advantages if these cities. | money and attraftions |
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