Chapter 22 Questions

1. What raw good did the first English textile factories work with?
2. What factors facilitated the Industrial Revolution in Britain?
3. What are the consequences of the revolutionary changes in the textile industry?
4. What were some of the challenges that workers faced moving from a rural to a factory
environment?
5. How efficient and fast were the first locomotives?
6. How were the earliest steam engines used?
7. What was THE major breakthrough in energy and power supply which catalyzed the
Industrial Revolution?
8. Where was the first important railroad line? (which cities?)
9. Who built the railroads?
10.What was the Crystal Palace?
11.Who was David Ricardowhat is his significant contribution to our study?
12.What are some of the difficulties faced by the continental economies in their efforts to
compete with the British?
13.Who was William Cockerill and what is his contribution to this history?
14.Who is List and what is his contribution to this history?
15.What role did continental banks play with regard to industrialization?
16.How would you characterize railroad construction on the continent?
17.How did the early industrialists get labor and capital?
18.What does Engels put forth in his work The Condition of the Working Class in England?
19.Why were family units hired in the early factories?
20.When do members of the British working class see improvements?
21.What is the impact of the Factory Act of 1833?
22.Explain the scholarly debate about the origins of the gender division of labor during the
Industrial Revolution?
23.What is the Amalgamated Society of Engineers?
24.What is the impact of the Combination Acts on the labor movement?
25.What is the Chartist movement and what are the key demands?
26.What is the Mines Act of 1842what impact does it have on labor?
Chapter 22 (724-750)
Quiz Wednesday / Test Friday (1 Week Chapter)
Commerclal 8evoluuon
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AgrlculLural 8evoluuon
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8ubble AcL
Lowes AcL, llmlLed llablllLy
navlgauon AcLs
Corn Laws
!ames Wau
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power loom
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Penry CorL
puddllng furnace
LransporLauon revoluuon
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Comblnauon AcLs
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Mlnes AcL of 1842
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FRQs
1. Why was Lngland Lhe rsL counLry Lo lndusLrlallze?
2. Analyze Lhe role proLo-lndusLrlallzauon played ln semng Lhe sLage for Lhe lndusLrlal 8evoluuon.
3. Compare and conLrasL Lhe lndusLrlal 8evoluuon ln Lngland wlLh Lhe lndusLrlal counLrles on Lhe conunenL.
4. Analyze ways ln whlch Lhe lndusLrlal 8evoluuon alLered Lhe soclal fabrlc of Luropean socleLy.
3. Analyze Lhe lmpacL of Lhe lndusLrlal 8evoluuon on Lhe followlng groups:

Women

Chlldren

Mlddle Class

roleLarlaL

easanLry
Chapter 22 (724-750)
Quiz Wednesday / Test Friday (1 Week Chapter)