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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 .