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What Country did the Industrial Revolution begin in?
Great Britain
Before the Industrial Revolution, all products were created how?
What is by hand
What word refers to why the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain?
BRITSS
What was the name of the revolution that changed the way farming was done? Improvements in planting seeds, improvements in fertilizers, and crop rotation.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Who invented the Seed Drill?
Who was Jethro Tull?
Why did factory workers prefer to hire women and children instead of men?
What is
they could pay them less?
What areas of Great Britain grew most during the Industrial Revolution?
What were the cities?
What term refers to large amounts of people moving to the cities?
Urbanization
What term referred to living in the country?
What is rural?
Who invented the Seed Drill?
Who was Jethro Tull?
What does the "B" in BRITSS mean?
Borders and Harbors
What does the "R" in BRITSS mean?
What are resources? (Natural Resources)
What does the "I" in BRITSS mean?
What are Investments?
What book did Adam Smith write?
The Wealth of Nations
How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?
Overcrowding
Tenant Housing
Dirty/Disease
Pollution
What are the 2 big natural resources found in Great Britain?
Coal and Iron Ore
Who invented the Cotton gin?
Who was Eli Whitney?
Who invented the steam engine?
Who was James Watt?
What term referred to living in the country?
What is Rural?
What does the term Laissez-faire mean?
What is the government should keep its hands off of businesses?
What was a Labor Union?
A group of workers who joined together to create change in the workplace
5 day work week
8hrs a day
Name 2 things Labor Unions achieved.
Wage increase
Better working conditions
5 day work week
End to Child Labor
What is Communism?
What is an economic system where the government controls the factors of production?
What does the "T" in BRITTS mean?
What is Technology?
What do the 2 "S" in BRITSS mean?
1. Stable government
2. Surplus of people