Ir Test

Question 1

Revolution

Answer 1

If there are big changes in society you call it a Revolution

Question 2

Industry

Answer 2

How we produce or make things to sell

Question 3

Technology from the IR

Answer 3

Factories

Question 4

Colonies

Answer 4

Countries who provided money with their natural resources

Question 5

Coal

Answer 5

Coal was 3x better than wood for energy and was good to use for factories but often caused bad pollution

Question 6

Natural resources

Answer 6

Coal wood and iron

Question 7

Enclosure system

Answer 7

Larger farm fields that made more profit for farmers

Question 8

Common land

Answer 8

An area could be used by anybody but gov made laws that made it so they had to be purchased

Question 9

Seed drill

Answer 9

Planted seeds neatly in rows and was faster and much less wasteful l new plants and animals were healthier but more expensive

Question 10

Flying shuttle

Answer 10

Made weaving much faster and allowed large looms to be operated by one person

Question 11

Laissez Faire

Answer 11

Business could be as free as possible from regulations and competition would make them grow, wealth would benefit everyone

Question 12

Factory system

Answer 12

Working conditions were unsafe because safety would be expensive for owners who only cared about profit. Workers were payed as little as possible

Question 13

Cottage system

Answer 13

There were small stores who only could make a limited amount of items

Factories made profits hard for them

Question 14

Invention

Answer 14

Someone who creates something new that has a good impact on stuff

Question 15

Child labour

Answer 15

Children would work from the age of 6
Families needed there children to work because their wages were low
Since they are small they would be put in dangerous situations

Question 16

Profit

Answer 16

Payed workers little so the owners could make maximum profit

Question 17

Energy sources

Answer 17

Used to use wood but switched to coal because wood was heavy and bulky and didn’t last long

Question 18

Slavery

Answer 18

Britain would abuse its colonies and use the people as slaves to make money

Question 19

Steam engine

Answer 19

A heat engine that performs mechanical work by using steam as a working fluid (used for trains factories and more)

James watt

Question 20

How did the factory system impact factory owners nature and city?

Answer 20

Owners could sell a lot more things and pay the workers little

Made cities polluted

Ruined natural habitats for animals

Question 21

Why did the IR happen in Britain but not other places?

Answer 21

Idk

Question 22

How did transportation change the IR?

Answer 22

They made new gravel roads (James macadam invented this)

Question 23

What kinda of laws did the gov make during the IR?

Answer 23

Laissez faire

Common land

Question 24

What were working conditions like?

Answer 24

Safety was expensive so owners didn’t bother so they could make more profit

People worked in unsafe places and even more so for children

Payed little

Question 25

Describe the child labour situation during the IR

Answer 25

Children worked from a young age so they could get more money because there parents made little to nothing Children worked in unsafe places because they were small and couldn’t refuse

Question 26

What was life like for the upper/middle classes?

Answer 26

Men had good jobs like lawyers etc and women would have parties and buy dinnerware and other things Children would be educated and go to school and not have to work

Question 27

Class structure

Answer 27

Born into a social group Working class/middle class/ upper class

Question 28

What did they use to figure which group you belonged too?

Answer 28

Accents

Question 29

Upper class

Answer 29

Inherited money from their parents and ancestors

Question 30

Middle class

Answer 30

We’re professionals like doctors, lawyers, and businessmen

Question 31

Working class

Answer 31

Worked in unsafe factories

Question 32

Why did everyone work in the middle class?

Answer 32

Because they needed all the money they could get women and children worked too

Question 33

What did poor people often revert too?

Answer 33

Crime

Question 34

Irish potatoe famine

Answer 34

A disease that destroyed all the potatoes in Ireland in 1845 leaving people starving and moving to Britain or Canada