Urbanisation Game - what do you remember?

In what year was Round 1 of the Urbanisation game begin? When the canal was added.

• 1645

• 1705

• 1745

• 1805

What early innovation revolutionized transport and the ability to move goods and drastically reduced the cost of transportation at the start of the Industrial Revolution?

• Canals

• Bridges

• Wagons

• Roads

The eradication of what disease led to a population increase during this era?

• Small Pox

• Typhoid

• Covid-4

• Bubonic Plague

The seed drill was invented by whom?

• Charles Darwin

• James Watt

• Jethro Tull

• Albert Einstein

In 1760 British Parliamed passed a series of laws that allowed landowners to buy pieces of common land from the government. These were called.......

• Land Rights Acts

• Enclosure Acts

• Manor Farm Acts

• Agrarian Independence Acts

Richard Arkwright (pictured) invented the water frame and thereby modernized the textile industry, he is known by which TWO titles?

Be sure to select 2.

• The First Millionaire

• The Lord of Oxforshire

• Creater of the Cotton Mill

• Father of the Factory

The early owners who could afford to purchase raw materials, buildings and the new water frame for profit called themselves what?

• Communists

• Anarchists

• Capitalists

• Libertarians

Housing created to house the very poor and unemployed were called?

• Tenements

• Commision flats

• Shanty towns

• Unit flats

Who attended school in the late 1700s?

• Boys from poor familes who couldn't work.

• Girls who wanted to improve their lot in life.

• Anyone who wanted to go, as long as they got their factory work done.

• Boys from rich families who could afford to pay.

The steam engine was invented by whom?

• Charles Darwin

• James Watt

• Jethro Tull

• Albert Einstein