1. Describe What Life Was Like Before the 1750S?

Industrial Revolution Video

1.  Describe what life was like before the 1750s?

Life was hard, people ate potato and bread, often sick, no machines or electricity, worked long hours, poor living conditions

2.  Define Industrial Revolution.

A movement in which machines changed the western world changed from a basically rural and agricultural society to a primarily urban and industrial one.

3.  The Industrial Revolution is a change from _agrarian__:_farm living__ to urban: City living___.

-Caused by machines and new inventions.

4. In what country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Great Britain

5. What led to the Industrial Revolution?

a. New farming methods

b. Population increase

c. Innovative way to generate power

6. What led to crop rotation?

Growing one crop one year and a different crop the next year to let the soil recover it’s nutrients.

-Result was more food production.

7. What are some results of an increased population?

a. More products needed

b. Provided extra workers for factories

8. What invention changed the way people got power?

Steam engine

9. What does “industrialization” mean?

Producing more things faster and cheaper with the help of machines

10. What is textile?

Production of cloth and clothing

11. What is division of labor?

Many people working together to produce on product

12. How did division of labor help production?

Allowed for cheaper production , faster

13. Who improved the telegraph and developed the Morse Code, a series of electronic beeps and dashes?

FB “Samuel” Morse

14. Cause and effect: Farming method = More food = Great demand, more labor = worker earn more $ = greater technology = lower prices, higher quality = transportation = communication

15. What do you need for “industrialization”?

a. cheap labor

b. power source

c. raw materials

d. transportation

e. large population

16. What best describes the manufacturing process during the Industrial Revolution?

Many workers doing small tasks to produce a product. (division of labor)

17. What did Samuel Slater build that helped the Industrial Revolution?

Spinning machine

18. What industry helped the Industrial Revolution to begin?

Steel

19. What helped transport goods from city to city?

Transcontinental railway

Bad working and living conditions

20. How long did the average worker have to work?

14 hours a day, 6 days a week

21. What were children 6 and 7 years old used for in the factories?

Fix and adjust machines

22. What is a union?

Organization that fights for the rights of the workers

23.What is a strike?

Refuse to work until demands are met

24. What did Thomas Edison invent?

Practical light bulb and powerhouse, electrical system

25. What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

telephone

26. Henry Ford invented the ____assembly line____.

- Helped “mass production” in factories.