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The Industrial Revolution Begins
Working Conditions and Wages
Changing Role of Women
Child Labor
Urbanization
100
The Industrial Revolution started here.
What is Great Britain?
100
12 to 14 hours
What is the typical work day for a factory worker?
100
Running the household and raising children.
What were women's primary responsibilities before the Industrial Revolution?
100
Beaten and strapped
What happened to children who were slow at their work?
100
In the mid 1700s, more than half the population in Britain lived here.
What is the countryside and farms?
200
This money is used for investment in factories and businesses.
What is capital?
200
Extremely dirty and dangerous, with locked doors and poor lighting
What are the conditions in the factories?
200
one-half to one-third of men.
What were women's wages?
200
Watch over them.
What is parents could no longer do this because children were working in factories?
200
Twenty families shared one of these.
What is a toilet and a water pump?
300
Coal
What is the most important resource used during the Industrial Revolution?
300
Workers risked this from the loud, unguarded machines
What is losing a limb or being killed
300
Men and women could no longer do this.
What is work together as partners?
300
10%
What is the percent a child was paid compared to an adult male?
300
Typhoid, measles, and cholera
What are diseases caused by cramped and dirty living conditions?
400
Steam Engine
What is the most important machine used during the Industrial Revolution?
400
This happened to workers if they were late or didn't pay attention to their machines.
What is fined or fired?
400
domestic servants (maids, cooks, nannies)
What is by the late 1800s, one third of all women were employed in this occupation?
400
Pull coal carts 10 to 20 miles a day.
What did children do in coal mines?
400
These people often had to live on the streets
What are orphans and the unemployed?
500
Textiles
What is the first industry affected by the Industrial Revolution?
500
10-15 shillings, 5 shillings, and 1 shilling per week
What were the wages for men, women, and children factory workers?
500
Lace workers wore these that caused deformed ribs and chests
What are wooden rods along their backs?
500
They had poor nutrition and weaker bodies.
Why were children more likely to become sick or injured in factories?
500
17 years
What was the life expectancy of a worker in Manchester in 1842?