INDUSTRIALIZATION
There were various problems with the industrialised system in England, including poor wages, overpopulation and
Pollution
This invention reduced the need for postmen to travel along roads in horse drawn carriages to deliver messages.
Telephone
Even though factory working conditions were not safe, if you got hurt and couldn't work, you...
Got fired or lost your job.
Significant industrialization occurred earliest in this country
England
This natural resource became the chief source of fuel in the Industrial Revolution.
Coal
The Industrial Revolution brought this system to the businesses in the cities
The factory system.
The cotton gin was an invention which improved the production of what?
Fabric
The manager position in a factory was held by someone from the lower, middle or upper class of people?
The middle
Two advantages Great Britain had which were necessary for industrialization were
Raw materials and a large/poor workforce
The water-pumping engine, factory machinery and railroad travel were powered by this technology.
Steam power
The factory system forced these people to work very dangerous jobs and get paid very little.
Young children.
Invented by John Deer in the 1830's, the plough which helped harvest wheat and other crops was made from what hard wearing material?
Steel
Another word for people and families who moved to seek new jobs in industrial centers:
Migration or immigration
After England industrialized, the overall standard of living did this.
Increased
This method of creating clothing by hand was limited after the invention of the cotton press and fabric weaving machines.
Sewing
One of the great societal changes brought about by industrialization was the growth of cities, also known by the term
Urbanization
Edward Jenner developed the first successful vaccine, which was developed to prevent this illness
Smallpox.
Urbanization tends to occur as a result of industrialization. People moved to the cities because of...
More jobs
When jails became overpopulated with people in the cities, they were sent here
Australia
During the Industrial Revolution, farming produced more goods and needed fewer of these to work their machinery
Animals
When a country industrialises, what type of work and industry begins to disappear?
Agricultural
The first motorcycle, invented in the 1880's, was made with two metal wheels, a small petrol engine and a frame made out of what type of material?
Wood
Many employers want to hire women and children rather than men to work in factories because the employer could do this.
Pay them less
It only took 30 years for this Asian country to transform into an industrialized nation.
Japan
Railroads were such an important innovation of the Industrial Revolution because railroads increased settlements and what else?
Trade