industrial revolution

Question 1

what years did the revolution

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1760-1914

Question 2

Life before

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Before the industrial revolution life was hard
Most people were farmers working in small towns and villages
Education was poor

Question 3

where did the rev begin

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Britain in the 1760s

Question 4

what did Britain surge ahead in the production of

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inexspenive cotton goods

Question 5

what is the cottage industry

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the manufaction of cloth in rural cottages in Britain during the 18th century

Question 6

who invented the spinning jenny

Answer 6

1764 james hargreaves

Question 7

who made the water powered loom

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edmund cartwright in 1787

Question 8

what do the spinning jenny and water powered loom do

Answer 8

spin thread faster

Question 9

who designed the first steam engine

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Thoman newcomen

Question 10

who invented the steam engine with rotary motion

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james watt

Question 11

what year did watt make changes to drive the machinery

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1782

Question 12

why did factories not need to be by water anymore

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because steam engines were powered by coal

Question 13

why did the iron industry boom

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bc the need for coal for steam engines

Question 14

whe was the first locomotive pulled on an industrial line in britain

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1804

Question 15

In 1837 british inventors william cooke and charles wheatstone patented the

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first commercial telegraph

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1852

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britain produced almost 3 million tons of more iron than was produced by the rest of the world combined

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1740

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Iron industry boomed

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In 1840

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britain had almost 2000 miles of railroad track crisscrossed much of the country

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In 1837 british inventors william cooke and charles wheatstone patented the

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first commercial telegraph

Question 20

Factory owners and people who invested in their factories often

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got rich

Question 21

As capitalists they owned the means of production so

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they got the profits

Question 22

Capitalists

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a wealthy person who uses money to invest in trade and industry

Question 23

who made remorse code

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Samuel morse

Question 24

With the development of factories came the

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development of cities

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PAS short a

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population agriculture supply of markets

Question 26

what was the class system short a

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owners and investors of factories gor rich and the workers were poor

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factory workers often worked

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16 hour shifts

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workers worked in

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small spaces denied breaks little pay dangerous machines intense labor

Question 29

thegov didnt get involved and protect

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workers

Question 30

By the mid 19th century great britain had become

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the world's first industrial nation and richest nation

Question 31

who was one of the first states to be industrialized

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france

Question 32

when did French play a big role in industrializatioj

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19th century

Question 33

where did industrialization take over in the mid 1900s

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germany

Question 34

which German state was especially rich in iron and coal resources

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prussia

Question 35

Unification of germany in 1870 led to

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rapid industrial growth

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*farms were isolated

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*urbanization

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Bc of the increase in food supply people were

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better fed and more resistant to disease

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Commercial capitalism

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an economic system based on trade

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Industrial capitalism

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an economic system based on industrial production

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*industrial capitalisms new economic stysem

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This new economic system produced a new middle class group known as the industrial middle class