Standard Checks Ch. 7: The Industrial Revolution Begins Answers

Standard Checks
Ch. 7: The Industrial Revolution Begins Answers
1. Why was the Industrial Revolution a turning point in world history (10.3.2)
It changed where and how people lived, how they worked, and how they
traveled.
2. How did an agricultural revolution contribute to population growth (10.3.3)
People ate better and were healthier, which reduced death rates.
3. What new technologies helped trigger the Industrial Revolution (10.3.2)
Watt’s improves steam engine and better quality iron helped contribute to the
IR.
4. What conditions in Britain paved the way for the Industrial Revolution (10.3.1, 10.3.5)
U.K.’s natural and human resources, technological lead, demand for goods due to
increased population, access to capital, and social and political conditions.
5. What led to the advancement of the British textile industry (10.3.2)
Inventions that increased production and the creation of factories
6. Why was the development of railroads important to industrialization (10.3.2)
They allowed factory owners to ship raw materials and products quickly over
land, not just by water.
7. What led to the massive migration of people from farms to cities (10.3.3)
Changes in farming displaced farmers, caused population growth, and increased
demand for workers.
8. How did members of the working class react to their new experiences in industrial cities
(10.3.3, 10.3.4)
Some staged futile protests, others turned to Methodism.
9. How did the Industrial Revolution affect the lives of men, women, and children (10.3.4)
They worked long hour in unsafe conditions for low pay. Women also had to feed
and clothe their families, a double burden.
10. Why was the Industrial Revolution seen as both a blessing and a curse (10.3.3)

With reforms, it eventually brought the blessing of material benefits and new
opportunities. However, at first workers lived and worked in wretched
conditions and poverty.
11. Explain the response to laissez-faire economics during the nineteenth century (10.3.6)
Govt should not interfere in business b/c a free market eventually brings
greater prosperity to everyone.
12. What did John Stuart Mill see as the proper role of government (10.3.6)
Mill believed govt should intervene to prevent harm to its citizens, such as
abuse of workers.
13. What did early socialist believe (10.3.6)
That all property and all means of production should be owned by the people as
a whole
14. What did Marx predict was the future of the proletariat (10.3.6)
The proletariat would overthrow capitalism through revolution, take control of
the means of productions, and create a classless society.
15. How accurate did Marx’s predictions about social classes prove to be (10.3.6)
Marx was wrong about international revolution. By the 1990s, few communist
countries remained.