Social Studies Study Guide
Industrial Revolution Open Notebook Quiz
*check Ms. Yu’s homework website for the answers
Make sure you can answer the following questions with your online notebook.
Our suggestion would be to go through your notes (both in your binder and in
Google drive) and highlight the important information you need.
DICUSSIONS IN CLASS
1. How many workers were employed during the Cottage Industry?
Compared to the amount of workers in a factory, there were a lot less.
2. What were some positive aspects of children working in factories?
They were small and could fit into small spaces to fix machines and bosses
could pay them lower wages.
3. What was a negative of using water as a source of power?
Water could freeze, there could be a drought.
4. Why did people create machines?
To make life easier and have faster production of items.
SHARK CHART (ALL INVENTIONS)
5. What type of power did factories originally run on?
Coal
6. The water wheel was powered by __________.
water
7. Why did the coal industry grow? (Hint: something was invented that was
much for reliable for a source of power).
Coal was reliable and helped provide a reliable source of power.
Social Studies Study Guide
Industrial Revolution Open Notebook Quiz
*check Ms. Yu’s homework website for the answers
8. Describe the purpose of the Spinning Jenny.
To spin thread.
9. What is a Watt?
A unit of power.
10. What did Jethro Tull invent?
Seed drill
ATLAS WORKSHEET 48
11. What three items are needed in order for a country to grow?
Money, stable government, natural resources
CHAPTER 19, SECTION 4 TEXTBOOK HW
12. Describe the working conditions for workers in a factory.
Long hours, harsh and dangerous working conditions
13. Were women and children allowed to work in factories?
Yes
14. What was the effect of dirty living conditions and low wages for the
working class?
Many died of infectious diseases, didn’t have healthcare (couldn’t afford it)
15. What did Great Britain do to prevent their secrets from leaving the
country?
By creating laws that made sharing of ideas of how to build machines illegal
Social Studies Study Guide
Industrial Revolution Open Notebook Quiz
*check Ms. Yu’s homework website for the answers
16. What did the Cotton Gin do?
Pulled the seeds from the cotton ball
17. Describe Eli Whitney’s idea of interchangeable parts.
A process where all the same parts are manufactured to be identical, was
faster production.
18. What are textiles?
Woven or knitted cloth
19. Who were the Luddites?
Workers who resented new technology
KEY TERMS DOC
20. What is a revolution?
Make a change to improve quality of life
SOCIAL CLASSES NOTES
21. What was the new social class that developed during the Industrial
Revolution?
Middle class
AGRICULTURAL NOTES
22. What was the cause of the growth in Great Britain’s population growth?
Food was more readily available because Great Britain studied farming as a
science and someone invented crop rotation.