World History (1700 – present)
Review Questions: Industrial Revolution
TERMS:
- industrial revolution - industrialization - cottage industry
- urbanization - monopoly - interchangeable parts
- mass production - union - textile
- enclosure movement - strike - piece work
- invention / innovation - spinning wheel - emigrate / immigrate
- capital - (power) loom - class conflict
- entrepreneur - invest - feudalism
- laissez-faire - capitalism - socialism
- proletariat - bourgeoisie - Marxism
- middle class - working class - utopian
- infrastructure - stock - corporation
- sustainability - division of labor
WHO:
- Karl Marx - Adam Smith
WHAT:
- What was the enclosure movement?
- What agricultural innovations came out of the enclosure movement?
- What are the basic steps of the production process in textiles?
- What are the basic required components of production, generally?
- What are the earliest machine inventions & innovations (i.e. in textiles, power sources, transportation)?
- What were the short-term effects of urbanization?
- What conditions are necessary to industrialize?
- What developments in power sources occurred in early industrialization?
- What developments in transportation occurred in early industrialization?
- What were/are the benefits of EARLY and MODERN industrialization?
- What were/are the problems of EARLY and MODERN industrialization?
- What is class conflict? What are its causes & effects?
- What are unions? What did they fight for? What were their methods? How successful were they?
- What are the benefits of setting up a corporation?
- What are the conflicting goals of capitalism and socialism?
WHERE:
- Where did industrialization initially spread outside of the U.K.?
WHEN:
- Over what time period did the industrial revolution occur?
- Over what time period did problems of urbanization & industrialization slowly get resolved?
WHY:
- Why was Great Britain the first to industrialize? (What factors made it the leader?)
- Why did Great Britain attempt to keep its industrial technology to itself?
- Why did Great Britain fail to keep its early monopoly on industrial technology?
- Why was early 19th century government unresponsive to workplace abuses?
- Why did unions form?
- Why was public education one of the key demands of unions over time?
HOW:
- How did the enclosure movement lead to agricultural innovations?
- How did agricultural improvements enhance industrialization?
- How did demand for cotton motivate inventions and machine innovations?
- How did improvements in transportation enhance industrialization?
- How did the factory differ from the home as a workplace?
- How were the short-term problems of urbanization resolved?
- How were the problems of industrialization addressed by workers (skilled & unskilled)? By government? By business owners?