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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WORKSHEET

Invention Inventor Description Impact or Result

Flying shuttle

Spinning jenny

Water-powered loom

First factory

Steam engine

Steamship

Puddling

Railroad
1. When and where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

2. List five factors that contributed to the start of the Industrial Revolution:

3. What was the cottage industry?

4. What four inventions advanced the production of cotton cloth?

5. What other two industries greatly expanded?

6. The first three countries to industrialize on continental Europe were?

7. Why did factories begin to require workers to work in shifts?

8. What was a problem with factory work?

9. What two classes of people emerged in the European society of the Industrial Revolution?

10. Why were more women employed in the factories?

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