5. What new technologies helped trigger the Industrial Revolution?
- Adam Darby smelted iron using coal
- Less expensive, quality iron to make the steam engine
- Anesthetics were created to reduces pain during surgeries
- James Watt made an efficient steam engine
- Antiseptics killed germs
8. How did the lightbulb change the world?
The lightbulb created longer work hours, and also let brains, of people who had to work long into the night, to work longer. the lightbulb lit up a room more and better than a fire and candles, the lightbulb is safer and easier to use.
1. Why was the Industrial Revolution a turning point in the World History?
Chapter 5 & 6 Assessment
- The Industrial Revolution was a turning point in world History because the way of life has been changed.
- The inventions started coming in, more and more people came to the city in search of jobs.
- Cities became bigger, the urban lifestyle grew.
2.What was a tenement ?
A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, for the poor in the large cities.
10. Why might a factory be interested in hiring children?
A factory might be interested in hiring children because the kids have small hands, so they can reach into a machine to fix and might not get their hands caught in there. They might also hire children because they are inexpensive, they wont be asking for a raise in their check.
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6. How was factory work different from farm work?
- farm work: outside, left to natures kindness, little to barely any pay
- factory work: inside, decent to little pay, insanitary working conditions, and dangerous working with the machines
7. Why was iron important during the early Industrial Revolution?
Iron severed as the key manufacturing material,and through its value in shaping and constructing many infrastructures, it expanded the economic growth of the Industrial Revolution.
3. Why was the development of railroads important to industrialization?
4. What did early socialist believe?
- it provided faster transportation of goods.
- with faster transportation of goods business owners get more money faster for how fats their product arrived.
9. What led to the advancement of the British textile industry?
Inventions, like the spinning jenny and the cotton gin, allowed for cloth to be made faster and more efficient. All this led to factories being made so they can mass produce cloth, instead of making cloth by their lonesome that is really expensive.
believed that all property and production should be owned by the people as an entire group