Technology
What innovations were created to help progress in agricultural productivity?
What is the seed drill, crop rotation, and/or selective breeding?
What did the Industrial Revolution do for the population?
What is grow the population?
What is the Factory Act of 1833?
What did the migration of workers from rural to industrial cities lead to?
What is overcrowding, and/or unsanitary living conditions?
Why did socialists criticize capitalism?
What is poverty, inequality, and social unrest?
What inventions lead to the mechanization of textiles?
What is the spinning jenny, water frame, and/or power loom?
What did Adam Smith's theories inspire?
What are technological advancements and economic growth?
What is the Mines Act of 1842?
What is an act that prohibited the employment of women and children in underground coal mines?
Because of overcrowding, people were commonly living in cramped tenements. What was happening to people because of these conditions?
What is people were catching and spreading disease?
What are the experiences, discrimination, and/or lower wages?
What was known as the epicenter of the industrial revolution?
What is Great Britain?
What were the policies implemented by the government and private investors?
What are protective tariffs, industry subsidies, and/or infrastructure investments like railways and canals?
Why did the Mines Act not want women and children in underground jobs?
What is the dangerous and exploitative working conditions in the mining industry?
Why did the government begin to introduce social welfare programs? What was part of these programs?
What is to assist vulnerable populations? These programs included unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and other forms of social assistance.
Who is Karl Marx, and what did he do for the communism of the industrial revolution?
What is he analyzed the dynamics of capitalism and argued that it led to the exploitation of workers?
What were some advancements in energy production?
What is steam engines fueled by coal?
What did Adam Smith's economic theories promote?
What is the division of labor, specialization, and/or laissez-faire economics?
What did the Factory Act do for children?
What were two common diseases that were being spread?
What is Cholera and Typhoid?
What did Karl Marx influence?
What is inspired socialist revolutions and political movements in the 19th and 20th centuries?
What did coal power?
What was the impact of Labor Movements?
What is the Labor Movement mobilized workers, raised awareness about labor issues, and/or pressured politicians to enact legislation to protect workers' rights.
As public awareness grew, what issues did the government have to address?
What is poverty, unemployment, and/or old age insecurity?
Who was Robert Owen?
What is he was an industrialist and social reformer who advocated for socialism?