ch.24 exam 2
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- Why did the population grow prior to the industrial revolution?
- reliable food supplies and widespread resistance to disease
- The result of the population was migration from ______ to ______and____ to_____.
- city to country and country to city
- What was the "putting out" system?
- merchants delivering raw materials to craftspeople and picking up the finished product.
- Give 3 reasons that Britain had a head start on the industrial revolution.
- it was the world's leading exporter of tools, guns, and hardware-it had the largest merchant marine-it was highly commercial and many people were involoved in production and trade
- What made Josaih Wedgewood's innovations in porcelain possible?
- mass production methods
- the first mechanized product was _____
- cotton cloth
- Why did england begin importing raw cotton?
- b/c the wool lobby banned impotation of cotton cloth
- Name two inventions that were developed to weave cotton textiles.
- the spinning jenny and the water frame
- What discovery by Abraham Darby transformed iron production?
- that coke could be used in place of charcoal in the smelting process
- What was the crystal palace?
- a huge greenhouse made entirely of iron and glass
- What is James Watt famous for?
- steam engine
- Initially, why did oceangoing ships not use steam power?
- they could not carry enough coal for a voyage
- What invention revolutionized communication during the industrial revolution?
- the electric telegraph
- Name 3 problems the urban poor lived with.
- overcrowded tenements- an atmosphere of filth, pollution, and sewage- danger of various diseases
- The industrial revolutionbrought about what ecological change?
- deforestation
- explain the impact of industrial work on families. ( include childresn )
- work was removed from the home and family members were seperated all day
- who was Francis Cabot Lowell? whta did he do?
- opened his factories with a commitment to decent wages and housing, but eventually, lowered wages and imposed longer hours.
- who were the real beneficiaries of the industrial revolution?
- the middle class
- explain the "cult of domesticity"
- when the role of middle class womenbecame to manage the home, children, and servants.
- What does Adam Smith propose is the wealth of nations?
- the government should refrain from interfering in business
- what were the Britains referring to when they spoke of the "dismal science?"
- economics
- what was the positivism?
- to address the misery of the poor
- What did the factory act of 1833 state?
- it prohibited textile mills from employing workers under the age of 9.
- What motivated Egypt to industrialize?
- in order to become less dependent on the ottamon empire
- what was Thomas Malthus' explanation of worker's misfortune?
- that the population was outgrowing the food supply
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