The Industrial Age

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An effect of the Industrial Revolution was that wages around the world
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increased.
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What is the best definition of the term "cottage industry"?
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people who produce goods out of their homes
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Before the Agricultural Revolution, many people lived in rural areas because
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they could grow food on small areas of land.
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James Watt played an important role in the Industrial Revolution by
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making steam engines a reliable power source.
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Which of these developments helped launch the Industrial Revolution? Check all that apply. Demand for goods increased. More families produced their own food. Populations grew rapidly. Many people moved back to rural areas. Landowners hired more workers.
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Demand for goods increased. Populations grew rapidly.
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The excerpt is from The History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, by Edward Baines. A great number of streams . . . furnish water-power adequate to turn many hundred mills: they afford the element of water, indispensable for scouring, bleaching, printing, dyeing, and other processes of manufacture: and when collected in their larger channels, or employed to feed canals, they supply a superior inland navigation, so important for the transit of raw materials and merchandise. According to the excerpt, in what ways did water help England's industrial boom?
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Water supplied power and a means of transportation.
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What is the most likely reason the Agricultural Revolution caused a population increase?
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More and better food allowed people to be healthy and well fed.
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The Agricultural Revolution helped spark the Industrial Revolution by increasing the amount of food produced and by
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decreasing the number of farmworkers.
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The purpose of a spinning jenny was to
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increase the speed of textile production.
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Which describes the connection between a mechanical loom and a cotton gin?
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The loom was invented first to increase textile production, and then the gin produced more cotton.
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Which describes the connection between a mechanical loom and a cotton gin?
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