Questions and Answers / Sure A+
Describe what it might have been like to be a cottage industry worker? How much do you work? When
do you work? - Working with family, constant disputes, paid for amounts of produce
What did Newcomen, Savory, and Watt have in common ? - Newcomen and Savory developed
steam pump. Watt invented first Stan engine.
What did the first factories make? - Textiles
What enabled England to industrialize first? - Good supply of coal&iron, cheap labor, big capita,
access to raw materials, stable government, cotton industry, steam engines,
What energies powered the IR? - Coal and steam engines
What was built between Liverpool and Manchester? - The Rocket traveled between the two cities
on a railway
What was the Credit Mobiler? - Bank in Paris that helped build railroads all over France
What was the Factory Act and what did it accomplish? - Limited work hours of children destroyed
patterns of families working together less child employment
What was the Mines Act of 1842? What did it accomplish? - Prohibited all boys and girls under 10
from workings underground
What was the Zollverein? - A German tariff on non-German imports made to encourage capital
investment in German industry