5 Written Questions

1. System which was basically an assembly line which made goods easy to manufacture and cheaper to create. Took less time, made guilds obsolete. Mobilization of the rural labor force for commercial production of large quantities of manufactured goods
2. Built the world's first railroad line and he designed and built 4 locomotives that were used. Father of the modern railroad.
3. Raised capital, almost always locally from relatives, friends, or members of the church; had to understand latest methods for building and powering machinery; had to know how to market goods.
4. Parliament, controlled by landowners, passed these to encourage improved methods of cultivation and stock-raising to increase productivity(Agricultural Revolution). `The old village system was an obstacle to these so in the 18th century the squirearchy was able to ensure that more of the common land would come under private ownership - by the already landed wealthy. Enclosure reached its height in the Napoleonic wars. Led to the increased productivity of land and labor but also released labor for other wage earning pursuits(became available as factory workers).
5. United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

5 Matching Questions

1. Cottage Industry
2. Josiah Wedgwood
3. Open-field farming
4. Factory Act
5. Puddling

1. a one-half and one-third of village land fallow so nutrients restored for next year. Communal rather than individual
2. b English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
3. c process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron
4. d Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution. Families used their own equipment.
5. e Created factory workday for children between 9-13 to 8 hours a day. Not applicable to home. Outlawed child labor under 9-factory owners establish schools. Destroyed family unit.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Made the puddling process
   1. Ten Hours Act
   2. The Rocket
   3. Henry Court
   4. Robert Owen
2. The transformation of farming that resulted in the eighteenth century from the spread of new crops, improvements in cultivation techniques and livestock breeding, and consolidation of small holdings into large farms from which tenants were expelled.
   1. Factory Act
   2. Agricultural Revolution
   3. George Stevenson
   4. Samuel Crompton
3. Established a principle of communal regulation to improve the work and character of his employees., Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
   1. Robert Owen
   2. Henry Court
   3. The Rocket
   4. Fodder crops
4. In 1709, he used coal to smelt iron, or separate iron from its ore. When he discovered that coal gave off impurities that damaged the iron; he found a way to remove the impurities from coal, leading to better quality/ cheaper iron.
   1. Steam engine
   2. Abraham Darby
   3. Factory Act
   4. James Watt
5. Allowed medical officers and inspectors to enter homes and businesses in the name of public health. The state could condemn private property for posing health hazards.
   1. Ten Hours Act
   2. Contagious Disease Act of 1864
   3. Richard Arkwright
   4. Public Health Act of 1848

5 True/False Questions

1. Edmund Cartwright → English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823); erected a cotton mill, was offered a Watt steam engine which ended up on auction block 3 years later

   True        False

2. James Watt → Act by Parliament that prohibited underground work for women and boys under the age of ten. This furthered the gender divide in the working classes.

   True        False

3. Richard Arkwright → English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the early Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame, a machine that, with minimal human supervision, could spin several threads at once.

   True        False

4. The Mines Act → The ten hours act of 1847 limited the workday for women and young people in factories to ten hour. This was an effort of the Tory party to gain support from the working class.

   True        False

5. Meadow floating → In order to combat the issue of not having food/water for animals, farmed flood low-lying land near streams in the winter to prevent ground from freezing and then drained the water which produce an early grass for animals to eat

   True        False