Industrial Revolution

1. 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

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

What was daily life like for a factory?

• Fun

• Exciting

• The same everyday

• Safe

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

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

Enclosure movement laws caused

• Inventors to create the steam engine

• Wealthy land owners to sell their land

• Many peasants to move to towns

• Farm animals to starve

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.

• Socialist

• Communist

• Utilitarian

• Capitalistic

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

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

• Women pushed for the ability to work in business

• Both men and women were required to work for financial reasons

• Women ran their own businesses from home

What does the key tell you about which type of production was taking place in London?

• Coal

• Woolens

• Machinery

• Cotton

Those who benefited most from the Industrial Revolution were

• Women

• Children

• Entrepreneurs

• Immigrants