Guided Reading Chapter 22

A.P. World History
Guided Reading, Chapter 22
“The Early Industrial Revolution (1760 – 1851)”

Terms:
1. “enclosure movement”
2. “putting-out system”
3. mass production
4. division of labor
5. mechanization
6. coke
7. puddling
8. Crystal Palace
9. steam engine
10. “Cotton Kingdom”
11. business cycles
12. “cult of domesticity”
13. “laissez-faire”
14. utilitarianism
15. positivism
16. utopian socialism
17. universal male suffrage

Individuals / Peoples
18. Josiah Wedgwood
19. Richard Arkwright
20. Eli Whitney
21. James Watt
22. Alessandro Volta
23. Samuel Morse
24. Adam Smith

Inventions:
25. Spinning jenny
26. water frame
27. cotton gin
28. electric telegraph

Eras / Events:
29. Industrial Revolution
30. Agricultural Revolution
31. the “Hungry Forties”

Legislation:
32. Factory Act of 1833
33. Mines Act of 1842
34. Corn Laws (and their repeal)

Questions to Outline:
1. What were the general causes of the Industrial Revolution?
2. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England – make a list?
3. List the effects the early Industrial Revolution had on Britain.
4. What was the most important industry in the early Industrial Revolution?
5. What two advantages did mechanization offer?
6. How did the early Industrial Revolution in Britain affect the new nation of the United States?
7. What were the effects of the steam engine in Britain and the USA?
8. Characterize the early railroads.
9. Make a list of at least 10 effects the Industrial Revolution had on cities.
10. How did the Industrial Revolution change the lives of women and children of the lower classes?
11. What class was the real beneficiaries of the Industrial Revolution and why?
12. Explain the basic theories of Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo.