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EFFECTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WORKSHEET

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QUESTION 1 Math skills: How many total workers does Henry Mayhew reference? Of this number, how many were employed only half the time or wholly unemployed?

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ANSWER Henry Mayhew referenced 4,500,000 workers. Of this number 3,000,000 were employed only half the day or wholly unemployed.

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QUESTION 2 What are the Combination Acts? Look back at the paragraph. What kinds of rights were workers not able to ask for because if them?

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ANSWER The Combination Acts made it illegal for workers to unionize, or combine, as a group to ask for better working conditions.

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ANSWER (CONTINUED) Migrants to the new industrial towns had no bargaining power to demand higher wages, fairer work hours, or better working conditions.

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QUESTION 3 List at 3 problems that factory workers faced.

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ANSWER Most laborers worked 10 to 14 hours a day, six days a week, with no paid vacation or holidays.

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ANSWER Workers toiled amidst temperatures as high as 130 degrees in the coolest part of the ironworks.

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ANSWER Under such dangerous conditions, accidents on the job occurred regularly.

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ANSWER Injured workers would typically lose their jobs and also receive no financial compensation for their injury to pay for much needed health care.

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QUESTION 4 How was culture negatively affected by the Industrial Revolution?

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ANSWER Workers spent all the light of day at work and came home with little energy, space, or light to play sports or games. In the new working-class neighborhoods, people did not share the same traditional sense of a village community. Owners fined workers who left their jobs to return to their villages for festivals because they interrupted the efficient flow of work at the factories.

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QUESTION 5 Why were poorhouses deliberately set up to be harsh places?

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ANSWER Poorhouses were designed to be deliberately harsh places to discourage people from staying on relief (government food aid).

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QUESTION 6 Look at the word unabated in the Industrialization paragraph. Based on the passage, the best meaning of this word is:

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ANSWER C. Without any reduction in intensity or strength (The city of London grew from a population of two million in 1840 to five million forty years later. )

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QUESTION 7 Name 2 reasons that overpopulation lad to bad living conditions.

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ANSWER The densely packed and poorly constructed working-class neighborhoods contributed to the fast spread of disease.

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ANSWER These neighborhoods were filthy, unplanned, and slipshod. Roads were muddy and lacked sidewalks.

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ANSWER Houses were built touching each other, leaving no room for ventilation.

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ANSWER Homes lacked toilets and sewage systems, and as a result, drinking water sources, such as wells, were frequently contaminated with disease.

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ANSWER Cholera, tuberculosis, typhus, typhoid, and influenza ravaged through new industrial towns, especially in poor working-class neighborhoods.

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QUESTION 8 Name 2 reasons that poorly trained doctors did not help living conditions.

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ANSWER Doctors still used remedies popular during the Middle Ages, such as bloodletting and leeching.

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ANSWER They concocted toxic potions of mercury, iron, or arsenic.

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ANSWER They also encouraged heavy use of vomiting and laxatives, both of which severely dehydrated patients and could contribute to early death, especially among infants and children whose bodies would lose water dangerously fast.

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QUESTION 9 Give at least 2 reasons that child labor will important to factories.

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ANSWER Some of these machines were so easy to operate that a small child could perform the simple, repetitive tasks.

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ANSWER Some maintenance tasks, such as squeezing into tight spaces, could be performed more easily by children than adults.

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ANSWER Children did not try to join workers unions or go on strike.

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ANSWER Child labor was the cheapest labor of all. Children were paid 1/10 of what men were paid.

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QUESTION 10 What did the government eventually do about child labor?

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ANSWER A committee was started to send investigators out to factories to interview children and gather evidence about their working conditions. They sought to pass a bill through Parliament to decrease child labor and regulate all factories to have a 10-hour workday.

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QUESTION 11 What issues did Jane Goode and Betty Wardle face?

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ANSWER Jane Goode had twelve children, but five died before the age of two, while Betty Wardle gave birth to children while working in coal mines.

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QUESTION 12 What are 2 advantages of people who lived in the middle class?

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ANSWER Middle class people were able to hire servants to cook and clean the house from time to time.

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ANSWER They were also able to spend more time with their families, and some women did not go to work.

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QUESTION 13 Read the final paragraph of the essay. According to E.P. Thompson, what was the main difference between the first part of the Industrial Revolution and the second half?

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ANSWER The main difference between the first part of the Industrial Revolution and the second half was that real wages began to increase by as much as 50%.