Industrial Revolution
Internal Migration
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Transportation of Convicts
WW1
100
What was the Industrial Revolution?
A period of rapid industrial growth in Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries when machines and factories changed how goods were produced.
100
Give one push factor for leaving rural areas in Britain.
Loss of land due to enclosure.
100
Why were enslaved Africans taken to the Americas?
To work on plantations producing crops like sugar, cotton, and tobacco.
100
When did the first fleet arrive in Australia?
1788.
100
Whose assassination is often cited as the the spark for WW1?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
200
What was the four field system?
200
Give one pull factor for moving to cities.
Availability of jobs in factories.
200
Define slavery. You must include 2 key factors.
Slavery is when a person is legally owned by someone else and forced to work for or obey them.
200
Why did Britain send convicts to Australia?
To reduce overcrowded prisons and establish a colony.
200
What does M.A.I.N stand for when it comes to the causes of WW1?
Militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism
300
What were the Enclosure Acts?
Laws that allowed landowners to fence off common land and turn it into private property.
300
Describe living conditions in industrial cities in 3 words.
Overcrowded, dirty, polluted, with poor sanitation.
300
Describe conditions on slave ships.
Extremely cramped, unsanitary, and dangerous, with little food or water.
300
What is one reason that prisons in Britain were overcrowded?
Gin craze, side effects of urbanisation, rise in petty crime
300
Name one country/empire on each side of the war
The Entente (France, Britain, Russia) vs Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire)
400
What invention allowed factories to move away from rivers and into cities, increasing urban growth?
The steam engine.
400
How did the Industrial Revolution change family life?
People married more, had more babies, more babies survived, better diets
400
Draw a diagram of the triangular trade on the board
400
What were the motives for imperialism?
Economic, political, ideological, religious
400
What type of warfare is most associated with the Western Front?
Trench warfare
500
Who was Charles Townshend?
He invented the four field system
500
What specific change caused by the Enclosure Acts meant small farmers could no longer survive economically?
They lost access to common land for grazing and farming.
500
What impact did the slave trade have on African societies?
Loss of population, disruption of communities, and long-term social and economic damage.
500
What was the name of the prison system used before transportation that involved holding prisoners on ships?
Hulks
500
What was the name of the peace treaty that ended World War I?
The Treaty of Versailles.