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The Industrial Revolution
Directions: Answer the following questions as you read p. 581-588 in your textbook
1.
When and where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
2. What 5 factors contributed to the start of the Industrial Revolution?
3. What 4 inventions advanced the production of cotton cloth (textiles)?
4. What effect did the steam engine have on the coal and iron industry?
5. What was the Rocket?
6. Why did factories begin to require workers to work in shifts?
7. What 3 countries were the first to be industrialized in continental Europe?
8. What change took place in the American labor force between 1800 and 1860?
9. What 2 classes of people emerged in the European society of the Industrial
Revolution?
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The Growth of Industrial Prosperity aka “Second Industrial Revolution”
Directions: Answer the following questions as you read p. 615-619 in your textbook
1.
The 1st Industrial Revolution had given rise to _______________________
_____________________. In the Second Industrial Revolution, _________
______________________________ led the way to new industrial frontiers.
2. What was the first MAJOR change in industry between 1870 and 1914?
Why was this important?
3. Electricity could be converted into what other forms of energy?
4. Why could Europeans afford to buy more consumer products?
5. Which part of Europe remained largely agricultural?
6. What did industrial workers do to improve their working and living conditions?
7. Who wrote The Communist Manifesto?
8. According to Karl Marx, what 2 groups of society would grow more and more
hostile toward one another?
9. What was the goal of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD)? What did it
become in 1912?