The industrial revolution Flashcards
what changes happens in agriculture?
New tools, fertilisers, and harvesting techniques wore introduced, resulting in more and improved farming
What changes happened in industry?
-Many factories were built all over the country making more efficient way to make goods such as wool, cotton and coal.
-The factories meant many new jobs were available
what changes happened in transport and communication?
-George Stevenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel directed the Railway Mania in the 1800s
-before this there was no fast way to transport goods
what changes happened in technology?
-Many scientific discoveries and technological inventions which changed society and industry
-changes to health and medical treatment
what’s needed in a paragraph writing about a historical source?
-a relevant inference
-detail
-your own knowledge
-provenance ( author purpose and audience, the time period who was reading the source)
-concluding sentence
factory working conditions
-long hours( 12-14 hours per day)
-low wages (75p a week, but for women and children were payed 15p so employers liked employing them)
-cruel discipline (hitting with leather straps, nailing children’s ears to tables, and more torture)
-accidents (forcing children to crawl under dangerous things causing deaths)
-health (air was full of dust leading to lung disease and hearing problems)
living conditions-urbanisation
-overcrowding( many people moved to the city meaning they had to share houses as there wasn’t enough)
-disease( overcrowding, low standard housing and low quality water led to diseases)
-poor quality housing (back to back houses built very closely so there was little fresh air and people couldn’t keep clean)
-lack of fresh water (people could get water from many places but it was polluted by human waste
industrial revolution
a time of big change in Britain from 1750 to 1900
urbanisation
the movement of people from the countryside to cities
invention
something new which is created, an object or idea
economy
the system of how money is used in a particular country
agriculture
the process of producing food by farming
poverty
the lack of basic human needs such as clean water, nutrition, healthcare, education and shelter
laissez-faire
do less
the idea that the government should interfere as little as possible
workhouses
a place where people couldn’t afford anything financially so wore offered a place to live and employment
