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| 337173603 | Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Great Britain? | The British put innovations into practice more quickly than other people. | |
| 337173604 | What were 4 of the five revolutionary innovations that were part of industrialization? | Mass production through the division of labor; New machines and mechanization; A great increase in the supply of iron; The steam engine and resulting changes. | |
| 337173605 | Which technological invention allowed the British to undersell high-quality handmade Indian quality? | The mule | |
| 337173606 | In what two ways did Watt's steam engine differ from previous devices? | It could be used anywhere and there was plenty of coal. | |
| 337173607 | What were some diseases brought about by industrialization? | Tuberculosis, Smallpox, Dysentery, Pneumonia. | |
| 337173608 | What is true about the industrialization in Europe? | Industrialization always made the environment worse; Britain increased its dependence on wood, hay, and wool; The British used coke exclusively for all industry, especially for all industry, especially for smelting iron and baking bread; Iron was too valuable to be used for anything except steam engines. | |
| 337173609 | How much of Ireland's population died in the potato famine of 1847-1848? | 25% | |
| 337173610 | How much of Ireland's population emigrated to England and America due to the potato famine of 1847-1848? | 25% | |
| 337173611 | What is true about women in the Industrial Revolution? | Women generally worked in textiles, just as they had traditionally; Women were paid from one third to one half of the wages paid to men; Other than motherhood, factory work became the main occupation of women; Women did work that required less strength than work done by men. | |
| 337173612 | Ordinary workers began to benefit from the Industrial Revolution... | by the 1850's | |
| 337173613 | Who were the real beneficiaries of the Industrial Revolution? | The middle class | |
| 337173614 | What was part of the "cult of domesticity"? | Middle-Class women became solely responsible for the home women managed the servants educated the children ran the family's social life | |
| 337173615 | What did Malthus and Ricardo recommend to solve the plight of the worker? | Sexual abstinence for the workers to prevent pregnancy. | |
| 337173616 | According to the philosophy of "laissez faire", what should a government do about the growing inequality between the rich and poor caused by the Industrial Revolution? | Do nothing at all. Government's only economic responsibility is to protect private property. | |
| 337173617 | An industrial revolution did not occur in China during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 C.E.) because the Song Dynasty... | did not pocess a steam engine to enable other industries like transportation to develop. | |
| 337173618 | What was a result of the Industrial Revolution by 1850 C.E.? | Industrialized merchants could manufacture their products at lower costs, driving non-industrialized competitors out of business; Industrialized countries could coerce non-industrialized countries with economic and/or military force; Women and children worked outside the home in far greater proportions than earlier; Social problems like unemployment, alcoholism, and abandonment of children increased. |
