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| A map of England during the Industrial Revolution. |
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| Where did the Industrial Revolution take place? |
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| It started in Britain and then spread throughout the rest of Europe and North America |
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| How long did the Industrial Revolution last? |
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| When did the Industrial Revolution start? |
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| When did the Industrial Revolution end? |
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| What was the cause of the Industrial Revolution? |
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| It was caused by people trying to find was to increase production of food and goods. |
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| There was a rise of a new class of businessmen. |
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| Those were the captains of industry. The men who owned the railroads and factories were just as rich, if not more rich than nobles of previous centuries. |
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| Who was payed less than the men? |
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| The women and the children |
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| Many factory workers endured poverty, toil, and suffering. |
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| They spent long hours toiling at dangerious machines. Then they would walk home through soot filled air, past wast yards, to filthy crowded apartments. |
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| What was one way miners obtained coal in small places? |
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| James Watt - Inventor of the steam engine. |
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| The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves. |
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| Model of the Spinning Jenny - Used to make cotton textiles. |
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| The Reverberatory Furnace could produce wrought iron using mined coal |
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| New method of producing glass called the cylinder process - allowed the Crystal Palace to be created. |
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| The Thames Tunnel (opened in 1843) was the first cement underwater tunnel. |
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| Child labor during the Industrial Revolution. |
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| A young "drawer" pulling a coal tub along a mine shaft. |
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| Coal miners during the Industrial Revolution. |
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