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Unit 6 Homework: Industrial Revolution
Unit 6 Homework: Industrial Revolution
Use your textbook to thoroughly and clearly answer each of the following questions. Answers
must be handwritten directly on this worksheet. Please be neat.
1. Use the chart below to bullet point an outline for the reasons the Industrial Revolution started in
Britain:
Natural Resources/Geography Labor and Capital Entrepreneurs and Inventors A Favorable Climate for Business
🚂 Canals:
🚂 Steam Locomotive:
3. Read the Rise of the New Social Classes and use the chart on pages 191 to complete the diagram
below:
-circle the class that benefited the most from the Industrial Revolution
-star the class that often rose “from rags to riches”
-underline the class that consisted in part of factory workers
Unit 6 Homework: Industrial Revolution
4. In a detailed paragraph (at least 4-5 sentences), describe the harsh working condition in factories
and mines:
socialism:
means of production:
communism:
proletariat:
7. In detail, outline the accomplishments of the scientists below in improving medicine and healthcare
during the Industrial Revolution:
9. In a brief paragraph, evaluate the pros and cons of new city life during the Industrial Revolution (at
least 3-5 sentences):