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| 1. Why did the Industrial Revolution happen first in Great Britain? |
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| Britain had access to a number of natural resources (iron and coal)The sector of the British economy had been growing during the 18th century. Increasing population growth and large labor market. |
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| 2. How did science and technology change society? |
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| By introducing new inventions and smarter ways of building an economy |
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| 3. How did the Industrial Revolution change rural life and contribute to the development of cities? |
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| Less work in the fields and pushing the population to the city to find work |
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| 4. How did the Industrial Revolution change how people viewed work? |
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| People started working in the factories and less farms, later developed better work hours and wages. |
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| How did the Industrial Revolution change who did the work? |
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| people lost their jobs to machines and worked more in factories and coal mines |
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| How did the Industrial Revolution change how they did the work? |
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| Changed by using machines which made work get done faster and crops grow faster |
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| How did the Industrial Revolution change where they did the work? |
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| Location changed because people migrated rural to cities to were the work was. |
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| How did the Steam Engine effect industrialization? |
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| Changed many things in industries such as transportation and location of factories. |
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| 9. What was James Hargreaves known for? |
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| Known for inventing the spinning jenny which spun many threads at once. |
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| What was Jethro Tull known for? |
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| Helped with the british agricultural revolution, and invented the seed drill |
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| 1. What was James Watt known for? |
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| Was an inventor and mechanical engineer, known for making improvements on the steam engine, made it more efficient |
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| What were the Factory Acts? |
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| Laws passed to reduce child's work to 12 hours and remove children under age of 9 from the cotton mills |
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| Labor unions were workers’ organizations that wanted a change to be made about their pay but they had no political power to make a change |
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| an economic and political system in which businesses belong mostly to private owners, not to the government |
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| an economic and political system in which large industries are owned by the government, and taxes are used to take some wealth away from richer citizens and give it to poorer citizens |
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| a political system in which the government controls the production of all food and goods, and there is no privately owned property |
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| How did the conditions created by the Industrial Revolution change the way people saw the world? |
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| It changed alot of ways including technology |
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