Monday, June 16, 2008

Day 6 - The Industrial Revolution

Homework Questions for Tuesday 6/23. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Wednesday 6/24.

Vocabulary Map Vocabulary
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural revolution
James Watt
enclosures
industrialization
immigration
capital
enterprise
entrepreneur
textile industry
Eli Whitney
flying shuttle
water frame
spinning jenny
transportation revolution
Liverpool
Manchester
tenement
urbanization
labor union
Thomas Malthus
Jeremy Bentham
utilitarianism
socialism
communism
Utopianism
Robert Owen
Karl Marx
Henry Bessemer
Thomas Edison
interchangeable parts
assembly line
stock
corporation
population boom
Louis Pasteur
Joseph Lister
middle class
standard of living
cult of domesticity
women's suffrage
Social Darwinism
romanticism
realism
impressionism
Vincent Van Gogh
Claude Monet


Reading Questions
1. How did the Agricultural Revolution lead to the Industrial revolution?
2. Identify 3 of the main causes that led to the population boom of the late 1700s.
3. Describe the 4 factors that led Britain to be the first country to industrialize.
4. How did the Industrial Revolution transform the textile industry. Cite specific examples.
5. Compare and contrast the ideas of Karl Marx and Adam Smith.
6. How did the Industrial Revolution improve city life?
7. How did the Industrial Revolution make city life worse?
8. How did the Industrial Revolution influence the creation of the middle class?
9. How did artists and others respond to industrialization?
10. What were the technological, social and economic effects of the Industrial Revolution?

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