EFFECTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WORKSHEET. QUESTION 1 Math skills: How many total workers does...
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EFFECTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WORKSHEET. QUESTION 1 Math skills: How many total workers does Henry Mayhew reference? Of this number, how many were
QUESTION 1 Math skills: How many total workers does Henry
Mayhew reference? Of this number, how many were employed only half
the time or wholly unemployed?
Slide 3
ANSWER Henry Mayhew referenced 4,500,000 workers. Of this
number 3,000,000 were employed only half the day or wholly
unemployed.
Slide 4
QUESTION 2 What are the Combination Acts? Look back at the
paragraph. What kinds of rights were workers not able to ask for
because if them?
Slide 5
ANSWER The Combination Acts made it illegal for workers to
unionize, or combine, as a group to ask for better working
conditions.
Slide 6
ANSWER (CONTINUED) Migrants to the new industrial towns had no
bargaining power to demand higher wages, fairer work hours, or
better working conditions.
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QUESTION 3 List at 3 problems that factory workers faced.
Slide 8
ANSWER Most laborers worked 10 to 14 hours a day, six days a
week, with no paid vacation or holidays.
Slide 9
ANSWER Workers toiled amidst temperatures as high as 130
degrees in the coolest part of the ironworks.
Slide 10
ANSWER Under such dangerous conditions, accidents on the job
occurred regularly.
Slide 11
ANSWER Injured workers would typically lose their jobs and also
receive no financial compensation for their injury to pay for much
needed health care.
Slide 12
QUESTION 4 How was culture negatively affected by the
Industrial Revolution?
Slide 13
ANSWER Workers spent all the light of day at work and came home
with little energy, space, or light to play sports or games. In the
new working-class neighborhoods, people did not share the same
traditional sense of a village community. Owners fined workers who
left their jobs to return to their villages for festivals because
they interrupted the efficient flow of work at the factories.
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QUESTION 5 Why were poorhouses deliberately set up to be harsh
places?
Slide 15
ANSWER Poorhouses were designed to be deliberately harsh places
to discourage people from staying on relief (government food
aid).
Slide 16
QUESTION 6 Look at the word unabated in the Industrialization
paragraph. Based on the passage, the best meaning of this word
is:
Slide 17
ANSWER C. Without any reduction in intensity or strength (The
city of London grew from a population of two million in 1840 to
five million forty years later. )
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QUESTION 7 Name 2 reasons that overpopulation lad to bad living
conditions.
Slide 19
ANSWER The densely packed and poorly constructed working-class
neighborhoods contributed to the fast spread of disease.
Slide 20
ANSWER These neighborhoods were filthy, unplanned, and
slipshod. Roads were muddy and lacked sidewalks.
Slide 21
ANSWER Houses were built touching each other, leaving no room
for ventilation.
Slide 22
ANSWER Homes lacked toilets and sewage systems, and as a
result, drinking water sources, such as wells, were frequently
contaminated with disease.
Slide 23
ANSWER Cholera, tuberculosis, typhus, typhoid, and influenza
ravaged through new industrial towns, especially in poor
working-class neighborhoods.
Slide 24
QUESTION 8 Name 2 reasons that poorly trained doctors did not
help living conditions.
Slide 25
ANSWER Doctors still used remedies popular during the Middle
Ages, such as bloodletting and leeching.
Slide 26
ANSWER They concocted toxic potions of mercury, iron, or
arsenic.
Slide 27
ANSWER They also encouraged heavy use of vomiting and
laxatives, both of which severely dehydrated patients and could
contribute to early death, especially among infants and children
whose bodies would lose water dangerously fast.
Slide 28
QUESTION 9 Give at least 2 reasons that child labor will
important to factories.
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ANSWER Some of these machines were so easy to operate that a
small child could perform the simple, repetitive tasks.
Slide 30
ANSWER Some maintenance tasks, such as squeezing into tight
spaces, could be performed more easily by children than
adults.
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ANSWER Children did not try to join workers unions or go on
strike.
Slide 32
ANSWER Child labor was the cheapest labor of all. Children were
paid 1/10 of what men were paid.
Slide 33
QUESTION 10 What did the government eventually do about child
labor?
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ANSWER A committee was started to send investigators out to
factories to interview children and gather evidence about their
working conditions. They sought to pass a bill through Parliament
to decrease child labor and regulate all factories to have a
10-hour workday.
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QUESTION 11 What issues did Jane Goode and Betty Wardle
face?
Slide 36
ANSWER Jane Goode had twelve children, but five died before the
age of two, while Betty Wardle gave birth to children while working
in coal mines.
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QUESTION 12 What are 2 advantages of people who lived in the
middle class?
Slide 38
ANSWER Middle class people were able to hire servants to cook
and clean the house from time to time.
Slide 39
ANSWER They were also able to spend more time with their
families, and some women did not go to work.
Slide 40
QUESTION 13 Read the final paragraph of the essay. According to
E.P. Thompson, what was the main difference between the first part
of the Industrial Revolution and the second half?
Slide 41
ANSWER The main difference between the first part of the
Industrial Revolution and the second half was that real wages began
to increase by as much as 50%.