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Industrial Revolution - Monopoly (Group 5 Inquiry Questions) (YIWEI…

- - - - Have we been able to improve the steam engine after Watt’s improvements?
      - What were the most important inventions?
    - - How did the industrial revolution impact on religion?
      - How do Luddites act in the present age? (If there are any at all)
    - - What were the effects of urbanisation during the industrial revolution?
      - Was it easy to move from a rural area to an urban area?
    - - What were working conditions like during the industrial revolution?
      - Was every family able to own their own house?
      - Was the industrial revolution the start of women working in areas like factories? Or had this happened earlier?
      - Did working prevent children from being able to play around with friends and things like toys etc?
    - - How has marketing changed during the industrial revolution?
      - Were the working conditions that children faced during the industrial revolution the cause of the child labour laws?
    - - Were slaves a major factor in the industrial revolution? (if they were a factor at all)
      - How was the usefulness of coal (to the extent of influencing the industrial revolution) discovered in Britain?
- - - - Steam engine
        
        How did the steam engine improve over time
        
        What were the steam engines used for and what industries did it change and develop
      - Cotton industry
        
        Why was so many inventions invented for cotton and what changes were brought by them
      - Iron processing
        
        Did the increase of quality and quantity of materials through metal processing effect other inventions?
      - locomotives
        
        What change did new forms of transportations do
    - - How did they work?
  - - - How did the progression of science affect religion and what did religion do against it
    - - How did the flow of wealth to to inventors affect social classes
        
        What new business strategies affecting society was made? such as marketing and advertising,
        
        How did the creation of new products affect society, eg. did the boom in cotton industry improve clothing of people
    - - With the increase of inventions and a new power source, what new jobs were created and old jobs affected? what did people do facing these changes? Luddites or moving into cities finding work?
      - How did rapid urbanization affect living conditions and the effects brought with it
      - How was the wage of workers, was it fair, how much wealth flowed into the lower classes?
      - How severe was polution in cities? How did these new pollution source affect the surrounding environment (water, air)? What impacts on health of humans did this bring?
      - How was the work conditions, how much did people work, how harmful was the environment at work?
- - - - Did much of the Industrial Revolution impact the modern world?
      - Many of the unemployed or underemployed were skilled workers, such as hand weavers, whose talents and experience became useless because they could not compete with the efficiency of the new textile machines.
    - - What were the long term impacts?
        
        How much/long did it continue into the modern world?
        
        Were people happy with the impacts of the Industrial Revolution?
        
        Were they happier before or after?
        
        improvements in agriculture throughout the period of the Industrial Revolution reduced the risk of famine through crop failure. Increased food production also meant that people could afford better food in larger quantities, which in turn helped them stay healthier
        
        Positive: Newly discovered sources of energy, women's rights, easier ways to manufacture goods, Advance in pretty much everything..
        
        Negative Long Term Negative Effects:
        We use more natural resources to run machines
        Started the emission of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels
        Started global warming
        Pollution started to become a problem
        Increase in waste
        Land fill
    - - Positive (England): Increased City population, Birth Rates grew higher...
      - Negative (England): Increase in child labour , Unfair wages, Unhealthy living conditions...
- - - - Positive
        
        People in the middle classes were generally very healthy. They ived in what we now know as suburbs, and had fairly good living conditions and realtively easy access to medical care.
      - Negative
        
        The health of the working classes was rather poor. Most of these people lived in cramped , unhygenic slums (up to 9 people per room), with little to no access to medical care, meaning that when disease spread (and in these dwellings it spread often and very quickly) it had a high chance of being fatal.
    - - Were people more or less prosperous?
        
        The industrial revolution caused a sustained rise in real income for every working person, though when the actual standard of living improved is up for some debate. Pessimists tend to say it did not happen until sometime during the 1840s or 50s, while optimists usually say that people were better off by 1810s.
    - - Were people happier than before?
        
        It's hard to say to say if people were generally happier, but during the industrial revolution, average wage did increase, and new developments in Western medicine meant that people had longer life expectancies., especially for children, who had much less chance of dying before reaching adulthood than previously. However, even though they were paid better, (on the whole) workers in factories suffered long hours and harsh work conditions.