Industrial Revolution Study Guide Questions and
Answers Revised Analyzed and Graded A+
Albert Einstein - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -E=mc2
Alexander Graham Bell - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Telephone
Anesthetic - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -reduces pain
Antiseptic - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -clean equipment to prevent infection
Anyone could improve their situation with hard work. Individual ideas could become huge
movements. What has been will not always be. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -The people that
were inventing new technology could be anyone, not just the wealthy or educated. How does this
reflect the Enlightenment ideals?
Before the factory system - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Goods produced in the home
Work required a wide range of skills
Children did chores at home with the family
Families worked directly with merchants
Few people were members of the middle class
Capital - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Funds for investment and
Human capital (skilled workers)
, Causes of the industrial revolution - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Availability of raw materials
and markets in colonies
Great Britain's sea power and political stability
Parliament's support of free enterprise
Agricultural improvements in Great Britain
Enclosure movement in Great Britain
Great Britain's factors of production
Invention of new machines in the textile industry
Development of the steam engine
Increased Individual freedom in the West
Western attitudes toward competition
Cottage industry - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Hand weaving wool cloth at home
Cotton gin - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Eli Whitney invented -pulled seeds off efficiently
Effects of Electrical power on Factories - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -not relying on large steam
engines
not depending on waterways
production increased -not dependent on sunlight
Answers Revised Analyzed and Graded A+
Albert Einstein - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -E=mc2
Alexander Graham Bell - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Telephone
Anesthetic - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -reduces pain
Antiseptic - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -clean equipment to prevent infection
Anyone could improve their situation with hard work. Individual ideas could become huge
movements. What has been will not always be. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -The people that
were inventing new technology could be anyone, not just the wealthy or educated. How does this
reflect the Enlightenment ideals?
Before the factory system - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Goods produced in the home
Work required a wide range of skills
Children did chores at home with the family
Families worked directly with merchants
Few people were members of the middle class
Capital - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Funds for investment and
Human capital (skilled workers)
, Causes of the industrial revolution - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Availability of raw materials
and markets in colonies
Great Britain's sea power and political stability
Parliament's support of free enterprise
Agricultural improvements in Great Britain
Enclosure movement in Great Britain
Great Britain's factors of production
Invention of new machines in the textile industry
Development of the steam engine
Increased Individual freedom in the West
Western attitudes toward competition
Cottage industry - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Hand weaving wool cloth at home
Cotton gin - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Eli Whitney invented -pulled seeds off efficiently
Effects of Electrical power on Factories - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -not relying on large steam
engines
not depending on waterways
production increased -not dependent on sunlight
