Industrial Revolution
Why did it start?
Living Conditions
Labor &Working Conditions
Economics
100

Prior to the IR, most people lived in ______ or agrarian (farm-based) areas.

What is rural?

100

The IR began in this Northern European country.

What is England/Britain?

100

These were the overcrowded apartments that housed multiple families in one unit.

What are tenements?

100

Give at least one complete sentence EXPLAINING WHAT WORKING CONDITIONS WERE LIKE during the IR.

Answers should explain that they were, at the very minimum, bad.

100

This economic system prioritized competition between businesses to provide customers the best possible product at the best possible price.

What is capitalism?

200

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, goods were made _____.

What is at home?

200

England had an abundance of _____ resources.

What is natural?

200

This is the term for rural to urban migration.

What is urbanization?

200

Karl Marx argued that workers during the IR were at risk of being ___________.

What is exploited/taken advantage of?

200

In this economic system, there is government involvement to redistribute resources more equitably so basic needs are met.

What is socialism?

300

This is the name for a large building that housed multiple machines at which workers produced goods.

What is the factory?

300

England had plenty of these, which helped power early water frame factories.

What are rivers/waterways?

300

This was at least one of the diseases that spread during the IR as more people lived closer together.

What is cholera/tuberculosis/typhoid?

300
This is the term for people younger than 17 having to work to earn money for their families.
What is child labor?
300

In a truly capitalist system, Smith argued that the ______ should have a laissez-faire/hands off approach and not get involved in economic matters.

What is the government?

400

During and after the Industrial Revolution, most people moved to and lived in _______.

What are cities/urban areas?

400

A growing entrepreneurial class had extra of this, which they invested in factories.

Capital (money used to make even more money)

400

This city was the first in the world to reach 2.5 million people during the IR, highlighting a change in world history that people would become more urban than rural over time.

What is London?

400

TRUE or FALSE: Workers during the IR worked for 6-8 shifts with plenty of breaks/down time.

What is false?

400

This is the ultimate goal of a communist revolution.

What is the abolition/getting rid of the class system and introducing equality between people?

500

In the ______ industry, everyday items were made at home by individuals.

What is cottage?

500

Great Britain relied on its ________ during the IR so they could gain additional resources they didn't have in Europe and have places in which to sell manufactured goods.

Colonies abroad

500

This was the period of time in the summer of 1858 in which the Thames River became so heavily polluted that all of London was olfactorily (with respect to smell) affected.

What is the Great Stink?

500

These were the groups established to help workers collectively push for better working conditions, wages, and safer environments.

What are (trade or labor) unions?

500

In this economic system, Marx argued that all of human history is the haves (bourgeoisie) vs. the have nots (proletariat). He argued that eventually, the proletariat would rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie.

What is communism?

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