Industry And Revolution

Question 1

Period of time of Industrial Revolution

Answer 1

1750 - 1900

Question 2

What was the Industrial Revolution ?

Answer 2

Movement of people from Rural ( countryside, nature ) to Urban city

Question 3

When the movement occurred what happened

Answer 3

A boost in population

Question 4

What did the Urban city have that the Rural didn’t

Answer 4

More factories = job employment ( opportunities )

Question 5

Urban city had…

Answer 5

Entrpeuners and inventors

Question 6

What happened when factories where made ?

Answer 6

Women worked in them

Question 7

Agricultural

Answer 7

Farming

Question 8

Throughout the Industrial Revolution ( 1750 - 1900 ) there was a removal of what and an addition of what

Answer 8

Removal of greenery, agricultural land and carriages
Addition of steam trains, brick houses, factories, more polluted

Question 9

Population increase

Answer 9

6 million -> 37 million

Question 10

Factors that led to population increase ?

Answer 10

-Jenners jab - better hygiene
-Sobering up
- young love
- magic midwives
- super soap
- baby boom
- clever kids
- doctors and nurses
- fad farmers

Question 11

Mass production =

Answer 11

Big amounts

Question 12

What did the impossibility of transporting food and cargo result in

Answer 12

Turnpike roads - good roads
- had to pay for use

Question 13

Canals =
Steam engine =

Answer 13

Faster and cheaper
Created by James Watt and Matthew Boulton

Question 14

Disgusting towns -

Answer 14

• people hung bodies in streets
• no sewage system - poo everywhere
• pollution - factories
• back to back housing
• slums

Question 15

What Was Edwin Chadwick put in charge of ?

Answer 15

Health of British people

Question 16

What did Edwin Chadwick publish?

Answer 16

The sanitary condition of the labouring population

Question 17

What did Edwin Chadwick say Three main things happen?

Answer 17

• Human waste removal
• Sewage system
• Medical officer in each area

Question 18

When was the public health act published?

Answer 18

1848

Question 19

What did John Snow do to prevent cholera ?

Answer 19

Remove the handle of Broad Street pump in Soho, London. ( short term solution )

Question 20

What was the Broad Street pump?

Answer 20

The main pump that spread cholera

Question 21

What is cholera?

Answer 21

A water born disease ( contaminated water )

Question 22

What did John Snow realise?

Answer 22

John Snow was the only person who realised Cholera was causing disease not miasma

Question 23

What is miasma ?

Answer 23

Belief That bad smell is caused death/disease

Question 24

John Snow ended the..

Answer 24

Cholera epidemic - 1854

Question 25

What did Bazalgette do ?

Answer 25

Designed the first sewage system in Britain

Question 26

What was the summer of 1858

Answer 26

The great stink ( further concluded the belief of miasma )

Question 27

What was Bazalgette named ?

Answer 27

OChief engineer of the Metro politician board of works ( hired to take care of sewers )

Question 28

What else did Bazalgette design ?

Answer 28

Bridges ( Putney Bridge )

Question 29

What were the key diseases ?

Answer 29

- cholera - scarlet fever ( rashes around body ) - Typhus ( spread by lice and fleas ) - small pox

Question 30

Key ideas -

Answer 30

- Government thought Laziness caused bad hygiene, poverty and illness - Drinking - Gin lane -> Beer street - Broad street pump - main pump

Question 31

What did government believe ?

Answer 31

Believed in the philosophy of Laissez - Faire

Question 32

Life before

Answer 32

- no sewage system - no medical officers - lack of understanding - no clean water - no toilets - faeces out window, on streets , cesspits, Thames