Industrial Revolution

Question 1

Mechanical

Answer 1

Operated by a machine or machinery.

Question 2

Rural

Answer 2

Relating to the countryside, rather than towns or cities.

Question 3

Industrial

Answer 3

Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.

Question 4

Urban

Answer 4

A characteristic of a town or city.

Question 5

laissez faire

Answer 5

The idea that the government should only get involved in business to keep peace and protect property rights.

Question 6

Transformer

Answer 6

A person or thing that fundamentally changes the essence of something or someone.

Question 7

Infrastructure

Answer 7

Basic physical structures that allow something to function. Eg. roads, bridges.

Question 8

Canal

Answer 8

A man-made waterway that allows for the passage of boats or ships inland, may also be used to move water for irrigation.

Question 9

Union

Answer 9

A group of employees joining together to bring about change in a company by dealing with employers as a group.

Question 10

Utilitarianism

Answer 10

The belief that anything that is done is ok as long as most of the people affected will benefit from it.

Question 11

Craftsman

Answer 11

A person who is skilled in a particular craft, skill or art.

Question 12

Communism

Answer 12

An economic and political system where all property and production belongs to the public.

Question 13

Capitalism

Answer 13

An economic and political system by which a country’s industry and
trade are controlled by private owners that wish to make money.

Question 14

Aqueduct

Answer 14

An artificial, man-made structure for conveying water.

Question 15

Socialism

Answer 15

A system where the government owns and controls businesses and how goods are made and shared.

Question 16

Proletariat

Answer 16

People who work for pay and don’t own much or have the tools to run their own big businesses.

Question 17

Tenement

Answer 17

A small, separate living space in a building, usually poorly built and crowded.

Question 18

Colonise

Answer 18

The sending of settlers to a location so that they take political control over it.

Question 19

Empire

Answer 19

An extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, or government.

Question 20

Yield

Answer 20

To produce or provide a natural, agricultural, or industrial product.

Question 21

Plough

Answer 21

A big farming tool with blades that is pulled over the soil to turn it and make rows for planting seeds.