Question 1

The British working class during the early industrial revolution often worked twelve to ________ a day.

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Question 2

Working-class Britons sometimes reacted to industrial conditions by forming associations called__________.

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Question 3

The movement in which British workers, fearing their jobs might be replaced by machines, broke those machines, is called ________.

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Question 4

Fear of crime in London led Parliament to establish a uniformed police, called Bobbies, named after the man who proposed this, ________.

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Question 5

Many early nineteenth century doctors believed that disease came from breathing fumes emitted by human waste, rotting vegetables and stagnant ponds. The theory was called ________.

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Question 6

A vaccine developed by Edward Jenner started to erase a perennial killer, ________.

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Question 7

_________ argued that urban health would be improved by the better removal of human and animal waste was.

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Question 8

The middle class family discussed in the text that became important British entrepreneurs was the_________ family.

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Question 9

How do you explain why Britain was the first to industrialize?

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Question 10

What happened in the textile and the iron industries to cause production in these to increase rapidly during the eighteenth century?

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Question 11

The text states that the railroads tied together most of the threads of the industrial revolution. Why was this so?

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Question 12

How did the Englishmen who moved from the countryside to the cities in the early industrial revolution adapt to urban and industrial life?

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Question 13

Why should the middle classes, rather than the traditional, wealthy aristocracy have been the greatest beneficiary of the industrial revolution?

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Question 14

Admittedly, the Cadbury family succeeded far better than most middle class families during the industrial revolution, but how does their economic rise illustrate both the opportunities and the changes that brought about the industrial revolution?

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Question 15

Which, in your view, had the greater long-term impact, the French Revolution or the industrial revolution? Illustrate with several examples from both events.

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Question 16

How did the industrial revolution alter the goals, lifestyles, family life and beliefs of both the middle class and the working class?

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Question 17

Considering both the travails of rural life (Chapters 13 and 15) and urban industrial life (Chapter 17), can the early industrial revolution be said to have brought improvement to the poorer classes of Britain?

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Question 18

Compare the consequences of industrialization for both the middle classes and the urban working classes, men, women and children.

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Question 19

Which changed more during the industrial revolution, technology or social life? Discuss.
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Quiz 17: Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850