Industrial Revolution Review
1. Know the 19 inventors and their inventions.
1. Charles Townshend 2. Jethro Tull 3. James Watt 4. John Kay 5. James Hargreaves 6. Robert Fulton 7. George Stephenson 8. Florence Nightingale 9. Henry Bessemer 10. Alfred Nobel 11. Alessandro Volta 12. Thomas Edison 13. Alexander Graham Bell 14. Guglielmo Marconi 15. Louis Pasteur 16. Joseph Lister 17. Charles Darwin 18. Gottlieb Daimler 19. Henry Ford 2. In what country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
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3. What were the two most important natural resources for the Industrial Revolution?
What are they used for?
4. In what industry did the Industrial Revolution begin?
5. Name a couple inventions that improved the textile industry.
6. List 3 inventions that provided energy for mills and factories.
7. How did Industrialization change the way in which people worked and lived (good and
bad)? What effect did factories have on the environment?
8. List 2 new developments in transportation.
9. What jobs did the working class have? Describe how they lived.
10. Why did factories often prefer to hire women and children?
11. How much education did lower class children receive?
12. What jobs did the middle class have? Describe how the middle class lived.
13. What were they most concerned about? Give examples to support your answer.
14. Why didn't middle class women work?
15. What religion told working class people to just work hard, save their money, and stay
sober?
16. Who founded this religion?
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17. How did labor unions protect the working class people?
18. Was the middle class sympathetic to the poor? Why/Why not?
19. Who were the Luddites? Describe the sentences that they faced.
20. What is Social Darwinism?
21. Study the chart that compares capitalism, socialism, Marxism, and communism.
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