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The Industrial Revolution began in

this industry.

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What is the textile

industry?

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This natural resource provided the fuel for

industrialization.

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What is coal?

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This social class provided most of the entrepreneurs that drove the industrial revolution forward.

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What is the middle class

(bourgeoisie)?

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This 18th-century economic “revolution”

made possible the dynamic population growth that fed the demand for workers.

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What is the Agricultural Revolution?

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This financial institution, founded in 1694, provided much

capital for industrialism in

England.

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What is the Bank of

England?

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This innovation by Watt, applied to machines in

factories beginning in the 1780s, was the

cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution.

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What is the steam engine?

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This was the quintessential invention

during proto-industrialization that

increased the efficiency in making thread.

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What is the spinning jenny?

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This was the quintessential proto-industrial machine for weaving cloth.

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What is the flying shuttle?

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Thomas Savory and Thomas Newcomen developed the first versions of these,

although they weren’t very efficient.

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What are steam

engines?

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This innovator developed the puddling furnace for

purifying iron while creating machines that could mold iron into any

shape.

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Who is Henry Cort?

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This was the most important

innovation of the transportation

revolution.

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What is the railroad?

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Robert Fulton invented this vessel, which allowed rivers to become two-way

arteries.

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What is the steamboat?

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John McAdam developed this, a

better way to travel on land.

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What is the hard-surface

road?

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This guy developed the first

locomotive, The Rocket, in 1828.

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Who is George Stephenson?

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The Duke of Bridgewater is

credited with this transportation

innovation.

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What are canals?

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This 1833 law outlawed in the textile industry child labor for children

under age 9 and reduced hours for older

children.

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What is the Factory Act?

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This highly controversial tariff was

enacted in 1815 to enrich landowners.

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What is the Corn Law?

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This British law really disgruntled workers in 1799

when it made labor unions illegal.

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What are the Combination

Acts?

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This 1842 law prohibited all boys and girls under the age of 10 from working under

ground.

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What is the Mines Act?

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This influential body inspired reforms after

concluding that working conditions in

factories were deplorable.

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What is the Saddler

Commission?

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These two new “isms” took the proletarian

view in response to the exploitation of workers

during the industrial revolution.

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What are socialism and communism?

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This group of disgruntled English workers smashed

machinery in factories in protest of

industrialization and their lost jobs.

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Who are the Luddites?

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This Scottish industrialist formed the

first labor union in England in the 1830s.

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Who is Robert Owen?

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This movement demanded universal

male suffrage.

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Who are the Chartists?

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This socialist writer accused the middle

class of “mass murder” in The Condition of the

Working Class in England (1844).

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Who is Friedrich Engels?

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This western city became the epicenter

of the Industrial Revolution in

England.

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What is Manchester?

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These places became, in effect, industrial prisons for workers

who were unemployed.

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What are poor houses?

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This cast-iron and glass structure

became a symbol of Britain’s industrial

dominance in 1851.

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What is the Crystal Palace?

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This was the new German customs union

in the 1830s that created a free trade zone among member

states.

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What is the Zollverein?

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This French bank pooled the resources of many investors for the construction of industrial projects.

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What is Crédit Mobilier?

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This was the most important reason why

Continental Europe lagged behind England industrially during the

early-19th century.

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