Growth of Industrial Towns and Cities

Question 1

Why did towns and cities grow?

Answer 1

• Improved infrastructure
• Demands for housing met by employers and factory owners

Question 2

Where was housing often built?

Answer 2

Close to factories

Question 3

What type of housing was used?

Answer 3

Back to back housing

Question 4

Why was back to back housing used?

Answer 4

Minimised the cost got factory owners, houses were often used in conjunction with terracing

Question 5

What was back to back housing?

Answer 5

a terraced house, but with shared walls on either side and to the rear, leaving only one front wall for all the windows and the front door

Question 6

1750

Answer 6

Population of London and Edinburgh over 50,000

Question 7

1772

Answer 7

Population of Manchester 25,000

Question 8

1831

Answer 8

Population of Manchester 182,000

Question 9

1851

Answer 9

29 cities over 50,000, London 2.3million

Question 10

What was the main requirement of housing, what was the result?

Answer 10

maximise gain and minimise outlay, rows upon rows of cheap dwellings

Question 11

What were the back to back housings like?

Answer 11

cramped, poor quality, small, very dark

Question 12

What did the houses result in?

Answer 12

Lack of ventilation and smoke created respiratory problems

Question 13

What was the sanitation like?

Answer 13

Drainage systems insufficient, cesspits without solid bottoms and not emptied to save money, seeped into water supplies

Question 14

What was the result of poor sanitation?

Answer 14

Outbreaks of influenza and cholera

Question 15

Cholera epidemic in Sunderland, killing 32,000

Answer 15

1831

Question 16

Where were improvements centralised?

Answer 16

More affluent areas