What was the Industrial Revolution?
What invention is most associated with starting the Industrial Revolution?
What were the social effects of industrialization?
What economic philosophy did Adam Smith advocate?
What was Karl Marx's critique of capitalism?
Why did industrialization begin in Britain?
How did textile inventions accelerate industrialization?
What was the factory system?
Why were coal and iron essential to early industrialization?
How did railways and steamships change industrial society?
What reforms responded to industrial working conditions?
What was the Second Industrial Revolution?
What drove the rapid urbanization that accompanied the Industrial Revolution?
Hint: Think about where the new factory jobs were located and why rural workers would move toward them.
How did the rise of industrial capitalism change the relationship between owners and workers compared to earlier craft and guild production?
Hint: Compare a craftsman who owned his own tools and set his own hours to a factory worker who owned neither the machines nor his schedule.