Industrial Revolution in Britain
What set the stage for the industrial revolution?
What is the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution
Which two non-western countries were important players in early modern world trade?
What is China and India
What were the first factories in the Industrial Revolution called?
What became more important, as it meant success and advancement?
What is formal education
Who made the steam engine better?
Who was James Watt
By the 1760s, what percent of the British worked in agriculture?
What is less than 40%
What political and social upheaval temporarily halted economic development?
What is the Napoleonic wars
Which laws limited the workday of child laborers and set minimum hygiene and safety requirements?
What is the Factory Acts
What was the name for workers who smashed new machines because it put them out of work?
Who are Luddites
What was the new era of industrial technology, celebrated by Great Britain called?
What is the Great Exhibition
Who invented the cotton spinning jenny in 1765?
Which country was a provider of raw materials, like timber and grain, for the west?
What is Russia
Who argued that employing children under the age of ten was injurious and not beneficial?
Who is Robert Owen
Which law outlawed unions and strikes, and was later repealed?
What is the Combination Acts of 1799
What did Edmund Cartwright invent in 1785?
What is the power loom
Who invented the water frame?
Who is Richard Arkwright
Which country exported sugar and cotton to European markets?
What is Egypt
What gender division classified the husband as a wage earner and the wife as a 'homemaker'?
What is separate spheres
In what year did the British Parliament abolish the slave trade?
What is 1807
What steamship was in the Hudson River in New York in 1807?
The Clermont
Which machine burned coal to produce steam, and was invented around 1712?
What is the steam engine
What was a government's way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods called?
What is tariff protection
What prohibited underground work for all women and girls, as well as for boys under the age of ten?
What is the mines act of 1842
What was the belief of belonging to a distinct social and economic class called?
What is class-consciousness
What was the name for the locomotive which had a maximum speed of 35mph, invented in 1829?
What is the Rocket