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7.1 & 7.2 Flashcards Industrial Revolution
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- 1What is the Industrial Revolution?The Industrial Revolution is the name given the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture.
- 2What was the time span of the Industrial Revolution?It started sometime around 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
- 3What laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution?Important scientific discoveries in the 18th century laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution.
- 4What was three important invention/discoveries during the Industrial Revolution?The spinning jenny, electricity and the steam engine.
- 5When was electricity discovered?1752 CE
- 6When was the spinning jenny invented?1764
- 7When was the steam engine invented?1776
- 8When was the colony of New Plymouth founded?1620
- 9What is mass production?Mass production is the manufacture of large quantities of standardized products, frequently utilizing assembly line technology
- 10What is rural-urban migration?Rural-urban migration is the movement of people from the countryside to the city.
- 11What does this cause?This causes two things to happen: 1. Urban growth - towns and cities are expanding, covering a greater area of land. 2. Urbanisation - an increasing proportion of people living in towns and cities.
- 12What were tenements?They were a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of flats. They were used commonly in the Industrial Revolution.
- 13What was hewing?Chopping or cutting with an axe or pick.
- 14What was the penal colony?a settlement established for the purposes of housing prisoners.
- 15What was the Long Boom?The period of economic prosperity in Australia in the late 1800s
- 16What was the economic depression?a period of sustained and severe economic downturn
- 17Where was the first English colony in North America established?Jamestown, Virgina
- 18When was the first English colony in North America established?1607
- 19When did the first free settlers to Australia arrive?16 January 1793
- 20What was the name of the ship they arrived on?Bellona
- 21What was blackbirding?The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders and using them as forced labour, in particular on sugar and cotton plantations in Australia.