The Industrial Revolution

A reason some businesses hired children was:

• To provide the children a bright future and opportunities

• So they could save money by paying the children less money

• So the children could take care of the heavy labor required for their business

• To improve their public image

 In pre-industrial times (before the industrial revolution), most people lived…

• on very large farms

• on rented lands

• in cities

• in rural villages

The agricultural revolution led to Britain’s industrialization (mass production) because…

• It created new inventions that could be used for urban industrialization

• It greatly increased the number of people working in agricultural fields

• It encouraged the fair and equal treatment of workers on farms and in factories

• It destroyed the cottage industry and made people look for work to work in factories

The series of laws passed by the British parliament that made large, factory style farms possible by selling public land was known as…

• Public Works Administration

• Enclosure Movement

• The Incorporation of Common Areas

• Parliamentary Redistricting

The agricultural revolution would allow for….

• Larger populations

• Increase in wealth of peasants

• Decreased populations

• More small family farms

Which term refers to “money to invest in labor, machines and raw materials” necessary to start a factory and industrialize?

• Capital

• Industrialization

• Entrepreneur

• Factory system

All of the following were effects of the conditions in factories on children EXCEPT…

• They could lose hands or other body parts in machines

• They could be beaten by the owners/managers of the factories

• They were paid very well for the work that they did

• They could work up to 16 hours a day with very few breaks for little pay

The movement of people into cities is called…

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Urbanization

• Absorption

What is Jacob Riis describing in the quote below?

“Bedrooms in tenements [run down apartments] were dark closets, utterly [completely] without ventilation [windows]. There couldn’t be any. The houses were built like huge square boxes, covering nearly the whole lot. Some light came in at the ends, but the middle was always black.”—Jacob Riis, The Battle with the Slum, 1902

• Why governments should build parks in cities

• The poor ventilation and lack of light in tenements

• The homes immigrants had before arriving in the United States

• The poor ventilation and lack of light in factories

What was the cause of these effects: 

• The Agricultural Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Capitalist Revolution

• The Enclosure Movement