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Industrial REVOLU
Industrial Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define Physiocrats | Focused on economic reforms using natural law |
| Define Laissez fair economics | Allowing business to operate with little or no government interference |
| Adam Smith (who, significance) | Wrote = wealth and nations Free market = more goods lower price |
| List briefly explain 3 causes of industrial revolution | Improved farming methods, farm output rose, more machines, urbanization |
| Define Urbanization | Migration to towns and cities |
| Identify 4 reasons for Britain leading industrial revolution | Reasons, new technology, economics |
| 3 classes of industrial city and where the lived | upper, middle, lower |
| Advantages to living in industrial city | Paved streets, street lights, police force, fire protection, sewer systems |
| Describe rigid conditions of factory life | Shifts = 12 to 16 hours, Tired Workers = a lot of accidents on machines |
| Why women workers? | Easier to manage, pay less, after work had to go home and take care of family |
| Why children workers? | Smaller fingers, children climb in small shafts, families needed money, beaten |
| Chartists reaction (who, significance) | Movement of working class, reforms would provide equality and give ordinary men in government |
| Why no property ownership and payments important to lower class citizens involvement in parliament? | People's charter |
| True or False. The new middle class of the Industrial Revolution stressed the importance of an ideal home and proper etiquette. | TRUE |
| True or False. The Industrial Revolution primary spread to Western countries, such as US, France, and Germany, with exception to Japan. | TRUE |
| True or False. The Industrial Revolution spread as other countries realized they had the resources, iron and coal, to successfully run factories and they learned about British technology. | TRUE |
| Define imperialism | Domination of one country over another country or region |
| List and describe 4 reasons for European imperialism as a result of the industrial revolutions | Economic interest, political and military, humanitarian goals, and social Darwinism |