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Flashcards by Musab Anzar, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Musab Anzar
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| Question | Answer |
| What 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. |
| What was the time span of the Industrial Revolution? | It started sometime around 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. |
| What laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution? | Important scientific discoveries in the 18th century laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution. |
| What was three important invention/discoveries during the Industrial Revolution? | The spinning jenny, electricity and the steam engine. |
| When was electricity discovered? | 1752 CE |
| When was the spinning jenny invented? | 1764 |
| When was the steam engine invented? | 1776 |
| When was the colony of New Plymouth founded? | 1620 |
| What is mass production? | Mass production is the manufacture of large quantities of standardized products, frequently utilizing assembly line technology |
| What is rural-urban migration? | Rural-urban migration is the movement of people from the countryside to the city. |
| What 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. |
| What 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. |
| What was hewing? | Chopping or cutting with an axe or pick. |
| What was the penal colony? | a settlement established for the purposes of housing prisoners. |
| What was the Long Boom? | The period of economic prosperity in Australia in the late 1800s |
| What was the economic depression? | a period of sustained and severe economic downturn |
| Where was the first English colony in North America established? | Jamestown, Virgina |
| When was the first English colony in North America established? | 1607 |
| When did the first free settlers to Australia arrive? | 16 January 1793 |
| What was the name of the ship they arrived on? | Bellona |
| What was blackbirding? | The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders and using them as forced labour, in particular on sugar and cotton plantations in Australia. |
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