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The Industrial Revolution Guided Reading
Read pg. 283 “Setting the Stage”
NAME ______________________________
ANSWERS
1. Where did the Industrial Revolution
begin?
2. How did the Industrial Revolution
change the way textiles (cloth) were
made?
3. To where did the Industrial Revolution
spread?
Read pg. 283-284 “Industrial
Revolution Begins in Britain”
ANSWERS
4. How did wealthy landowners change
farming in Great Britain?
5. What did wealthy landowners do after
buying up the land of village farmers?
6. What were these larger fields called?
7. List two important results of the
Enclosure Movement.
1.
2.
8. How did Jethro Tull change farming?
9. What is crop rotation?
10. Explain what effect wheat and turnips
had on the soil during crop rotation.
11. How did Robert Bakewell improve his
mutton or lamb output? How much did
the average lamb weight increase from
1700 to 1786?
12. What effect did the Agricultural
Revolution have upon food supply, living
conditions, and population?
13. What happened to former farmers?
a. Wheat:
b. Turnips:
a.
b.
Read pg. 284 “Why the Industrial
Revolution Began in England”
14. List two reasons the Industrial
Revolution started in England.
ANSWERS
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2.
15. Define Industrialization
16. Why was coal needed?
17. For what was iron ore used?
18. What is meant by “factors of
production?
19. What are the three most important
“factors of production”?
1.
2.
3.
Rd. pg. 286-the last paragraph
ANSWERS
20. From where did England get its cotton
in the 1790s?
21. What did Eli Whitney invent?
22. By how much did American cotton
production increase because of Whitney’s
invention?
1790:
1810:
Read pg. 287 “Improvements in
Transportation”
23. Who invented a faster more efficient
steam engine?
24. Who invented the first river
steamboat?
25. How was water transportation
improved?
26. List two ways road transportation was
improved.
ANSWERS
1.
2.
Something to think about: How does
improved transportation affect the
Industrial Revolution?
Read pg. 287-288 “The Railway Age
Begins”
27. What the power source in factories by
the late 1700s?
28. After 1820, what was the most
important land transportation source?
29. List 4 ways railroads revolutionized life
in Great Britain.
ANSWERS
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