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The Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain because

All of the above

Chartism was

An attempt to link the solution to the economic plight of the working class to a program of political reform

How did class - consciousness form during the Industrial Revolution ?

As modern industry created conflict between industrialists and laborers , individuals came to believe that classes existed developed a sense of class feeling .

In the 19th century , Friedrich List believed that industrial development should be pursued

As part of a project of economic nationalism led by the state

Which statement is true concerning industrial growth in continental Europe ?

Belgium led continental Europe in adopting British technology for production

Who were the Luddites ?

British handicraft workers who attacked factories and destroyed machinery they believed were putting them out of work

Why were cottage workers , accustomed to the putting - out system , reluctant to work in the new factories even when they received good wages ?

In a factory , workers had to keep up with the machine and follow its relentless tempo .

The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851 commemorated the

Industrial dominance of Britain

What was an effect of the Factory Act of 1833 ?

It limited the work of children and thereby broke the pattern of families working together in factories .

The major breakthrough in energy and power that catalyzed the Industrial Revolution was

James Watt's steam engine , developed and marketed between the 1760's and the 1780's

How did labor in British families change in the 18th century

Labor for wages in factories became the primary way that British families provided for themselves

The English Factory Act of 1833

Limited the work of children and thereby broke the pattern of families working together in factories

Thomas Malthus argued in his Essay on the Principle of Population ( 1798 ) that

Population tends to increase beyond the means of subsistence

Proletarianization refers to

The gradual loss of worker's ownership of the means of production and control over their own trades

The development of railways led to

The stimulation further industrial growth due to the more rapid passage of raw materials and finished products

What did the Mines Act of 1842 prohibit ?

Underground work for all women and girls as well as boys . under ten

The invention that initially took cotton textile manufacturing out of the home and put it in the factory was called the

Water Frame

In the " separate spheres " pattern of gender relationships

Women generally stopped working outside of the home after marriage and the birth of the first child

The reformer Robert Owens sought to

create a single large national union for British workers

Why were cottage workers , accustomed to the putting - out system , reluctant to work in the new factories even when they received good wages ?

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David Ricardo's iron law of wages states that

the pressure of population growth will always sink wages to subsistence level .