Euro history industrial revolution

What is subsistence farming

Farming which provides just food for your family

What is the correct figure for British population growth 1701-1831

8.6 million

Which best describes the term enclosure?

Fences and hedges being put up to divide open fields

Which crops were rotated in the Norfolk four-course rotation

Maize,grass, beetroot, turnips

What are James Watt and Matthew Boulton famous for>

Steam engine

What did James Hargreaves invent in 1764

The spinning jenny

Who opened the first factory at cromford

Richard Arkwright

What was the name given to domestic textile workers

Handloom weaver

How many miles of canals were built between 1760 and 1840 in Britain

4000

What is a turnpike road

A private road people paid to use

What was the main requirement for the sitting of factories before 1780

Close to a steam for water power

What was a major textile town by 1800

Bolton

What county has the greatest cotton production by 1800

Lancashire

What was macadam famous for

Road surfacing

Which railway line was opened in 1825

Stockton-Darlington

Who was not a railway engineer

Robert Southey

What development by Abraham Darby transformed the iron indsutry

The blast furnace

Which year between 1832 and 1850 saw the greatest amount of railway construction in Britain

1846

How much did coal output increase by in the period 1800-30

15 to 30.3 million tons

What economist did most to promote the idea of free trade

Adam Smith

What percentage of the population lived in towns by 1880

80%

Whose report of 1842 showed the problems of healthy in cities

Edwin chadwick

How many children died before the end of their first year in the early 1840s

3 in 20

In which period was there a substantial increase in real wages for industrial workers

1850s and 1860s

What could workers in factories get fined for

drunkenness, poor quality work and excessive talking

What percentage of workers in textile factories were woman and children in the 1830s

33%

In which year did a factory act reduce hours worked by some workers

1844

In which industry did puddlers and roller work

Iron industry

What was the main cause of cholera and typhoid

contaminated water

What is the Earl of Shaftesbury most famous for

Improved working conditions for children

What did Luddites do

They destroyed machines that they believed were taking their jon

Who were the swing riots

A group led by the educated who wrote letters to threaten farmers against new tech

What was the Hampden club

A political group that wanted the right for all adult man to vote and supported parliamentary reform and opposed the government

Who were the blanketeers

Handloom weavers

Where was the peterloo massacre

St.petes field in manchester

What did Catholic emancipation allow Catholics to do in 1829

Allowed Catholics to vote and become a member of parliament

What was a rotten borough

A British parliamentary district with very few voters that still elected MP, making it easy to control elections

What was demanded by chartists

Universal male suffrage, no property qualifications for voting, and annual elections to parliament

What did the combination acts prohibit

It prohibited trade unions and collective bargaining

What were blacklegs

Workers who break strike and continue to work during trade disputes