Agricultural Revolution
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
The Agricultural Revolution was a period of technological improvement and improved farming.
Who was the most successful in the Industrial Revolution?
Britain
What was a scavenger?
A child who climbed underneath machines to gather objects that were fallen or dropped.
A disease caused by drinking polluted water
Cholera
What is the locomotive?
Train
Urbanisation
A large population of people moving from the countries to the cities
What is selective breeding?
Only allowing the most fruitful plants and biggest animals to breed.
How much did the population grow in the cities in the Industrial Revolution?
It more than quadrupled. 7 million to 38 million.
What was phossy jaw?
A disease that caused bone cancer in the jaw due to exposure to phosphorus chemicals.
A disease caused by large inhalation of coal-smoke that affected the lungs
Tuberculosis
A communicative technology through morse code.
Telegraph
Leisure Time
Free Time
What was the 4-crop rotation system?
A crop rotation of four plots, where one field is left empty to avoid the soil becoming stripped of minerals and nutrients.
What happened to the cities the bigger the population became?
The cities became overcrowded, houses became smaller and turned to slum-like living.
Who had the first successful strike?
The Match-Stick Girls
What is typhus?
Typhus is a group of diseases caused by bacteria that is spread to humans by fleas, lice, and chiggers.
A device used to create lights created by Thomas Edison.
Lightbulb
Revolution
A dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation.
What are the Enclosure Laws?
A set of laws that forced citizens to buy farming land in order to use it.
What was one of the most important resources in the Industrial Revolution that allowed Britain to become successful.
Coal
Why would workers have pay deductions?
Whistling, bathroom breaks, speaking, sneezing, lunch breaks, dirty feet, and unclean work benches.
What is coal smoke?
Heavy layers of smog, which hung over the factory towns and cities from burnt coal.
What were the four benefits of the train?
Holidays, fresh produce, communication and time.
Primary Source
A piece of evidence created at the time of the event or period being studied
Why did many people die?
Lack of food, disease, lack of money.
What is the next topic in year 9 history?
Changing rights and freedoms
Why did factories want to employ women and children more than men?
They were paid less money than men. Children were able to fit into and behind the machines which made them valuable.
A piece of technology designed for pumping out water in mines and later for trains.
The Steam Engine.
Secondary Source
A piece of evidence created after the event or time period being studied, often an interpretation of a primary source