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Q: What is the general term for the period of history from 1750 to 1914?
Industrial Revolution
Q: What is a primary source?
Anything left behind from the past or created about a past event
Q: What is the term for the process of changing from an agrarian society to one based on industry?
Industrialisation
Q: What is the term for people who destroyed machinery in the early 1800s, believing it would help them get their jobs back?
Q: What is the name of the act that prohibited the employment of women and children under the age of ten in coal mines?
-Bonus points for the year of the act
Mines Act 1842
Q: What is the term for the theory that disease was spread by "bad air?"
Miasma Theory
Q: What was the primary fuel source for early industrial machines in Britain?
Coal
Q: What system of standardized parts allowed for mass production and easier machinery repair?
Standardisation
Q: What is the term for the large-scale production of goods?
Mass production
Q: What was the main use of the first commercially successful steam-powered device?
To pump water
Q: What is the name of the system where work was divided into simple, repetitive tasks?
Division of labour
Q: What is the term for the disease that brought fear and panic to London in 1831?
Cholera
Q: What is the acronym used to help remember the elements of source analysis?
CATFLAP
Q: What Act of Parliament in 1833 limited the working hours of children and required that factory owners provide some education?
The Factory Act
Q: What was the name of Thomas Newcomen's steam-powered machine?
The atmospheric engine or the Newcomen Engine
Q: Australia was a source of what raw material for Britain?
Wool
Q: Name a British colony that was a source of raw cotton.
India, Egypt
Q: What is the name of the economic system based on private ownership and free markets?
Capitalism
Q: What is the name of the spinning machine invented in 1764?
Spinning Jenny
Q: What does the "A" in CATFLAP stand for?
Audience and Author
Q: What did physician John Snow identify as the likely source of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London?
Water pump on Broad St
Q: In what year did a severe cholera epidemic occur in Soho, London?
1854
Q: What is one factor that increased agricultural output during the Agricultural Revolution?
New farming techniques and technologies
Q: What is the term for the process of children being employed for work?
Child Labour
Q: What is the name of the system where workers are paid for the hours they work?
Wage labour
Q: What is considered to be the backbone of early industrialization?
Textile industry
Q: What invention by George Stephenson revolutionized transportation?
Railways
Q: What did reformer Robert Owen call his social and educational reforms at New Lanark?
'New Social System'
Q: What movement involved the enclosure of common lands into private farms?
The Enclosure Movement
Q: What is the term for the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another?
Emigration
Q: What is the term for the business of manufacturing products or providing services?
Industry
Q: What term describes the movement of people from country villages to towns and cities?
Urbanisation or Rural to Urban Migration
Q: What is a main means of transporting materials?
Hint: name 3 elements
Roads, Canals, Railways
Q: What was a common disease in the unsanitary conditions of emigrant ships?
Typhus, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, smallpox, measles, tuberculosis, yellow fever
Q: What invention by Edmund Cartwright mechanized weaving?
Power Loom
Q: What is the term for housing occupied by poor people?
Tenements