Causes of the Industrial Revolution
This country was the starting point of the Industrial Revolution.
Britain
How many hours a worker might spend on the job in a single day.
The term describing a move from the countryside to cities.
Urbanisation
The main industry in Britain during the Industrial Revolution.
textile manufacturing
Three regions involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Britain, America, and Africa
This major natural resource powered steam engines and was abundant in Britain.
Coal
This phrase described harsh and miserable working conditions in factories.
"dark satanic mills"
The population trend that occurred as death rates fell.
Population growth
The invention that dramatically increased coal demand.
Watt’s Steam Engine
The proportion of the world under British control by 1900.
1/4
This global network provided raw materials and markets for British products.
The British Empire
The group that violently opposed machines replacing jobs.
The Luddites
The working class commonly lived in these unhealthy and crowded living areas.
Slums
James Watt improved this mining-related invention in 1769.
The steam engine pump
This was a law that resulted in the agricultural reform that displaced farm workers.
The Enclosure of Common Land Acts.
Give one reason the Industrial Revolution began in Britain.
Stable government and finance.
A reason why women and children were hired more than men in cotton mills.
cheaper, compliant, small size
The slums of the Whitechapel area contributed to the issue of...
Social Impact
Two major iron-based structures showing advancements in industrial engineering.
Eiffel Tower and Ironbridge
One reason crime increased during the Industrial Revolution.
Poverty, low wages, poor housing, over crowed cities.
Give 5 Inventions that were considered important to the industrial revolution.
A law-driven reason fewer children worked in factories over time.
Minimum age, laws and compulsory education.
A feature NOT commonly found in slum areas.
Public green spaces.
This agricultural tool helped revolutionize crop planting.
Jethro Tull’s Seed Drill
A false cause for rising crime in the Industrial era.
The attitude of upper-class citizens.