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GUIDED READING
Section 1
The Beginnings of
Industrialization
A. Analyzing Causes and Recognizing Effects As you read this section, make notes in the
chart to explain how each factor listed contributed to an Industrial Revolution in Great Britain.
1. Agricultural revolution
Increased food supplies led to an increase in population that
boosted demand for manufactured goods and provided labor for
factories.
2. Abundant natural
resources
3. Political stability
Enabled Britain to devote its energies and resources to economic
expansion, industrialization, and overseas trade; created a
climate for progress.
4. Factors of production
5. Technological advances Improved the quality and speed of cotton cloth production;
in the textile industry
boosted profits; spurred other industrial improvements.
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6. Entrepreneurs
7. Building of factories
Allowed industry to move out of the home and into a central
location.
8. Railroad boom
B. Drawing Conclusions On the back of this paper, define enclosure and crop
rotation and explain how both paved the way for an agricultural revolution.
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GUIDED READING
Section 2
Industrialization
Case Study: Manchester
A. Analyzing Causes and Recognizing Effects As you read this case study, take notes
to answer questions about how industrialization changed the way people lived and worked.
What changes did industrialization bring about for the following groups of people?
1. Poor city dwellers
The poor lacked adequate housing and many were forced to live
in dark, filthy, overcrowded slums under very unhealthy and
unsafe conditions.
2. Factory workers
3. Wealthy merchants,
factory owners,
shippers
They gained wealth and status in society and joined a growing
middle class of skilled workers, professionals, business people,
and well-to-do farmers.
4. Children
5. Lower middle class of
factory overseers and
skilled workers
They enjoyed a comfortable standard of living.
What were the long-term consequences of the Industrial Revolution for each of the following?
7. The environment
8. Education
The environment was polluted and
natural resources were depleted.
B. Determining Main Ideas On the back of this paper, define urbanization and
middle class and explain how these terms relate to industrialization.
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6. Large landowners and
aristocrats