Agriculture
What was the main effect of the Agricultural Revolution?
caused people to grow crops and raise animals for food
Name one con about child labour
loosing limbs
Name one great invention
- Spinning Jenny
- Steam Power
- Electricity
- Steam Boats
What was one of the best ways to travel?
In rivers by steamboats
who were coalers?
People who extracted coal from mines
What are some positive results of the Industrial Revolution?
Why did they use children for jobs?
Children had the advantage of having nimble fingers and smaller bodies that could get into places and under machinery that adults could not
What did electric lights do?
Electric lights allowed factories to stay open longer and produce more goods
What are canals?
canals were built to connect rivers, lakes, and oceans
How did coal impact the enviornment?
- available and affordable source of energy
- burning coal released pollutant into the air
- contributed to climate change
- contributed to water pollution
Name a negative of the Industrial Revolution
- exploitation of women and children
- workers work long hours and environmental damages
When children worked in factories, the chemicals made them lose what?
Their teeth
What is the Spinning Jenny?
The Spinning Jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution
When were railroads invented?
around 1830
What was a cat-coiller ship?
a ship that was typically used for carrying coal
One characteristic on the Industrial Revolution
How much money do child labourers get a day?
less than $2 per day
What were Steam Powers used for?
They were used to not only power factories, but also in transportation to power steamboats and trains
When were roads invented in the Industrial Revolution?
1765
Other than coal what was one source of energy during the Industrial Revolution?
- watermills
- waterwheels
- windmills
What is the old name for "crop rotation"?
"food, feed, fallow"
In Britain, the government made it illegal for children under the age of 9 to work in what year?
1833
Who invented the Spinning Jenny?
James Hargreaves
Before the Industrial Revolution, transportation relied on...
animals.
What did coalers fuel with coal?
Steam engines