Exam 20: the Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Many of Britain's industrial entrepreneurs were Quakers and other religious minorities, in part because they were excluded from many public positions and lacked opportunities other than in the new industrial capitalism.

Did governments do more to promote the interests of workers or of employers, and why?

In the eighteenth century, India still struggled to find a viable industry for its labor force, given that cotton was not an option due to competition from England.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Luddites

Compare and contrast the patterns of industrialization in continental Europe and the United States with that of Great Britain.

The British government played a significant role in Britain's industrialization by providing subsidies for most industries and funding a transportation network of canals and railroads.

IDENTIFICATIONS -James Watt and the rotary engine

IDENTIFICATIONS -Richard Trevithick

IDENTIFICATIONS -Ireland and the potato

The newly industrialized European nations actively encouraged industrialization in their colonies, such as the British did in India, believing that more production would reduce the cost of goods thus satisfying domestic consumers.

Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain?

Discuss the concept of the 'middle-class' and its relation to the Industrial Revolution.

The European population explosion of the nineteenth century

The eighteenth century agricultural revolution in Britain reduced the cost of food, thus giving the British extra income to purchase items produced by the Industrial Revolution.

The new set of values established by factory owners during the Industrial Revolution

One of the differences between British and Continental industrialization was that

IDENTIFICATIONS -trade unions

IDENTIFICATIONS -factory acts

A frequent method employed to make the many very young boys and girls working in new British industries obey the owner's factory discipline was

Britain's emergence as the first industrial power was aided by all of the following except