Guided Reading 19 – 1
1. When and where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
2. What five factors contributed to the start of the Industrial Revolution?
3. What four inventions advanced the production of cotton cloth?
4. What effect did the steam engine have on the coal and iron industry?
5. What was the Rocket?
6. Why did the factories begin to require workers to work in shifts?
7. What three countries were the first to be industrialized in continental Europe?
8. What change took place in the American labor force between 1800 and 1860?
9. What two classes of people emerged in the European society of the Industrial Revolution?