The Industrial Revolution History - The Industrial Revolution

What do you mean by coasters?

Write two features of the cotton industry of England.

What was the contribution of rivers to the proliferation of London as a centre of trade?

What do you understand by Industrial Revolution?

What were the positive sides of the Industrial Revolution?

Why did Industrial Revolution first occur in England? Give reasons.

The growth of trade union helped to put an end to the idea of Laissez faire. How?

What were relative advantages of canal and railway transportation?

Industrialisation was a natural step in the progress of mankind. Why?

Describe the conditions that denote industrialisation.

In his novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens (1812-70), perhaps the most severe contemporary critic of the horrors of industrialisation for the poor, wrote a fictional account of an industrial town he aptly called Coketown. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a stare of melancholy madness.'
Questions:

1. Who was Charles Dickens?
2. About which period and the country he is talking about in this passage?
3. Highlight any four social problems mentioned here.

On the given map of Britain, mark and locate the following iron and coal manufacturing areas.

1. Leeds.
2. Sheffield.
3. Liverpool.
4. Bristol.
5. Swansea.

D.H.Lawrence (1885-1930), British essayist and novelist, writing seventy years after Dickens, described the change in a village in the coal-belt, change which he had not experienced, but about which he had heard from older people.
'Eastwood must have been a tiny village at the beginning of the nineteenth century, a small place of cottages and fragmentary rows of little four-roomed miners' dwellings, the homes of the old colliers. But somewhere about 1820 the company must have sunk the first big shaft and installed the first machinery of the real industrial colliery. Most of the little rows of dwellings were pulled down, and dull little shops began to rise along the Nottingham Road, while on the down-slope the company erected what is still known as the New Buildings little four-room houses looking outward into the grim, blank street, and the back looking into the desert of the square, shut in like a barracks enclosure, very strange.
Questions:

1. What do you know about D.H. Lawrence? What did he describe?
2. Which particular class is he referring to?
3. Write a few effects of early industrialisation on villages and towns.

On the map of Britain, mark and locate the following cotton textile manufacturing areas.

1. Newcastle.
2. Nottingham.
3. Birmingham.
4. Glasgow.
5. Leicester.
6. London.

Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow:“The man of wealth and pride
Takes up a space that many poor supplied;
Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds,
Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds;
The robe that wraps his limbs in silken cloth
Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth.'
Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village''.
Questions

1. Who wrote this? Write the name of the book from which it was taken.
2. What do you understand by the Enclosure Movement?
3. Write any two effects of this movement.

On the given map, mark and locate the extent of the U.S.A.

On the map of Australia mark and locate the following:

1. Perth.
2. Sydney.
3. Adelaide.
4. Darwin.
5. Melbourne.
6. Canberra.