Agriculture
Transportation
Why Great Britain
Demographics
Daily Living
100
To leave unplanted
What is fallow?
100
This is a man made waterway
What is a canal?
100
This financial institution played an important role in the Industrial Revolution by giving out loans
What is a bank?
100
This was the occupation of 80% of the population before the Industrial Revolution
What is a farmer?
100
This is where poor people were sent in Victorian cities
What is a workhouse?
200
Fencing off part of someone's farming land by law so that you can hire people to farm it your way
What is enclosure?
200
These were used to improve road conditions by collecting tolls from the people using the roads in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
What are turnpike trusts?
200
This was a vital resource that was used as an efficient fuel supply for the steam engine and was plentiful in Great Britain
What is coal?
200
This is the movement of people from rural areas (the countryside) to urban areas (towns and cities). This is usually for work.
What is urbanization?
200
This type of person often worked as chimney sweeps or in textile mills because of their small size and lower wages
What are children?
300
This invention dramatically changed the way crops were planted in the 1700s
What is the Jethro Tull seed drill?
300
This new type of water vessel could travel against the wind much more easily than sailing vessels
What is the steamship?
300
This financial institution allowed business owners to greater risks by covering costs from natural disasters like fires
What is an insurance company?
300
This is term given to a community that is based on farming?
What is an agrarian society?
300
This is a deadly, water-borne disease commonly found in industrial cities
What is a cholera?
400
This invention could eliminate the labor of six or seven farmers in the 1700s:
What is the portable threshing machine?
400
This was the inventor of the steam engine
Who is James Watt?
400
In 1750, these two Asian countries each produced more goods than all of Europe
What are India and China?
400
The increase of these meant fewer babies and mothers died in child birth
What are midwives?
400
This law created the workhouse system
What is the New Poor Law?
500
This crop from the new world was well suited for the English climate, grows underground, and greatly increased England's food supply
What is a potato?
500
This black, sticky substance was used to greatly improve road conditions in the early 1800s
What is tarmacadam (aka tarmac)
500
This European country had gained much of its land from water using damns, pumps, and dikes
What is the Netherlands?
500
This was the average life expectancy before the Industrial Revolution
What is between 25 and 35 years of age?
500
This is the year the first Factory Act was passed to improve the working conditions of English textile mills
When is 1833?