1. Student__________________________________class____date________
Ryan’s WHistory Ch 13.2
Terms:
>domestic
>tenements (360)
>apprentice
>capital
>management
>economist
Use the following items to complete the chart:
employed women & children workers worked on complete products
Workers did only part of a job workers fined for being late
Workers decided when to work employed skilled workers
Factory system Domestic system
Workers were paid for items completed
Workers were paid for hours worked
Mark each statement T if it is true or F if it is false. If FALSE – correct the statement on line provided.
___ The factory system had no effect on how people worked or lived their lives.
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___ Early textile factories preferred to hire children and young women because they worked for
lower wages than men.
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___ Factory owners wanted to produce goods as cheaply as possible.
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___ In the early days, textile factories lured women to work by offering higher wages than they
would earn in m ore traditional jobs.
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___ Women were often paid the same wages as men, even when the woman was the only wage
earner in the family.
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___ Child-labor laws were strictly enforced from the earliest days of industrialization.
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___ Workers’ living conditions, especially in the tenements, were generally far safer and more
healthful than working conditions in factories.
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___ The Industrial Revolution shifted the balance of power from manufacturing to agriculture.
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2. ___ The middle class that arose as a result of the Industrial Revolution was based on wealth
rather than on birth.
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___ Most workers felt that neither they nor their children could ever belong to the middle class.
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Create bar/line graphs using the following information:
population in 1750 = 7 million
population in 1900 = 37 million
people living in towns in 1750 = 13%
people living in towns in 1900 = 87%
life expectancy in 1750 = men 31 women 33
life expectancy in 1900 = men 45 women 48
infant mortality in 1750 = 65%
infant mortality in 1900 = 15%