Industrial revolution GPT Flashcards
(18 cards)
Give estimated start and finish dates for the Industrial Revolution.
1760 - 1840
What happened to Britain’s population during the Industrial Revolution?
It boomed
What was the name of the system when people worked in their homes?
Domestic system
What was the name of the system when people worked in large communal mechanised buildings?
Factory system
Name three machines invented during the Industrial Revolution.
Spinning Jenny, Water Frame, Steam Engine
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent in 1876?
The telephone
Name three engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Clifton Suspension Bridge, Great Western Railway, SS Great Britain
Why is Richard Arkwright associated with the Industrial Revolution?
He built the first factories
What name is given to the workers’ housing built around factories during the Industrial Revolution?
Back-to-back housing
What was positioned at the end of the street of workers’ houses that all the families shared?
A toilet
The outbreak of which disease killed thousands of people in London in 1858?
Cholera
Apart from Q39, state three diseases from which people died during the Industrial Revolution.
Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Smallpox, Cholera
What point was Hogarth making when he published Gin Lane?
That alcohol abuse was ruining society
State three problems with living conditions in Industrial Britain.
Unsanitary, lack of clean water, poor food
State three problems with working conditions in Industrial Britain.
Unsafe, long hours, low pay, child labour
State three developments with transport during the Industrial Revolution.
Trains, canals, improved roads
State three ways in which life or work improved in Britain as a result of the transport revolution.
Faster travel, easier trade, access to jobs, daily newspapers
State three ways in which work changed in Britain for many people during the Industrial Revolution.
Factory work replaced home work, child labour increased, regular wages
