Pre-Industrial/ Cottage Industry
Child Labor
Bessemer Process
Industrial Towns
Inventions
100
What is Subsistence farming
Farming to feed family, not to sell goods
100
How long were the children workdays?
The children started work at 5 in the morning, and work until 10 at night, 11 on Saturdays
100
Define smelting
Extracting metal from its ore, by heating and melting
100
Why did people leave the Cottage Industry and move near the factories?
The products made in the factories was a lot cheaper that the ones made in the cottage industry. People were not making enough money.
100
The inventor of the efficient steam Engine was
James Watt
200
How were children used in Preindustrial England
Workers on a farm
200
Describe the jobs that the children had to do in the factories. (Include names and what that job entailed)
Scavengers- Picked up loose cotton under the machines Piecers- Fixed the broken parts of the machines
200
What is the Bessemer Process
Heating up the iron inside a crucible and forcing air through it
200
How did the city deal with the housing problem of the new towns?
Built houses and quick and cheap as possible
200
James Macadam invented what?
Roadbeds
300
Why did the Cottage Industry no longer worked in peoples homes?
The Machines were too big for the homes
300
Describe the accidents of the factories
1. Fingers caught and cut off in machines 2. Hair caught in machines 3. whole body pulled into machines.
300
Daily Double!! What was the impact of Bessemer Process on the military? List 3
Better guns, Armor for vehicles Tanks Navy Ships
300
Why was there no drainage or sewer systems in the towns
The rich people did not want to pay for it
300
What was the Cotton Gin?
Machine that separated the seeds from the cotton
400
What is the Enclosure movement?
When wealthy landlords took common land away from the poor to experiment with new farming technology
400
Describe the food that the children had in the factories
Oatcake and boiled milk/water, placed in a can. Potato Pie with boiled bacon dark, soft bread
400
What was the impact on Architecture?
Able to build skyscrapers Highways suspension bridges
400
How many toilets were each house assigned? How did it get emptied
40 houses, 6 toilets. Had to pay 1 pound, or 5 weeks worth of rent. Night men came and emptied them into the river.
400
What was the Rocket
A train that went 24 mph
500
Describe Crop Rotation
Farmers used all the land, they simply switched the locations of different crops because each one uses different minerals from the soil.
500
Describe at least 3 of the punishments that the children received in the factories
1. Beat with a belt 2. Dipped head first in a water tank 3. Chains placed on ankles and waist
500
Why did we need the Bessemer Process?
The iron before the Bessemer Process was soft and Brittle
500
How did Doctors describe the industrial town
Whole streets covered in Human waste, smelly.
500
List 2 inventions based on the steam Engine
Steamboat Trains
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