Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution can best be described as a shift from...

• Mechanized work to rural work
• Agricultural life to mechanized life
• Urban life to rural life
• Factory work to farm work

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Agricultural life to mechanized life

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Which of the following factors influenced urbanization?

• Workers in cities could choose the hours they wanted
• Working class residents of cities were allowed to vote
• Living conditions in cities were clean and comfortable
• There were many jobs in newly opened factories

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There were many jobs in newly opened factories

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What was daily life like for a factory?

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The same everyday

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In the late 1800s, one response of workers in England to unsafe working conditions was to:
- Take control of the government
- Set minimum wages
- Form labor unions
- Return to their farms

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Form labor unions

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Which of the following is this image depicting?

• Miners got paid more wages because their work was more dangerous
• Workers united and formed unions
• Farmers leaving rural areas provided a large labor pool
• Women wanted the right to vote

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Workers united and formed unions

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Enclosure movement laws caused

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Many peasants to move to towns

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A(n) _________________ economic system can be described as a system led by a small, elite group that controls all aspects of economic and political life.

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Capitalistic

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The cult of domesticity was mainly experienced by the middle class because

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Men earned enough at work to allow women to not work and run the home

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What type of production was taking place in London? Options: Coal, Woolens, Machinery, Cotton

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Machinery

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Those who benefited most from the Industrial Revolution were: Women, Children, Entrepreneurs, Immigrants

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Entrepreneurs