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🏭 The Industrial Revolution – Year 8
History · Year 8 (KS3) — inventions, factories, child labour, railways and life in Britain's booming towns
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Questions
Who invented the spinning jenny in the 1760s?
Edmund Cartwright
Samuel Crompton
James Hargreaves
Richard Arkwright
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Which inventor greatly improved the steam engine in the 1760s and 1770s by adding a separate condenser?
Thomas Newcomen
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
George Stephenson
James Watt
20s
The Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1761, was built mainly to carry which cargo into Manchester?
Iron ore
Wool
Coal
Raw cotton
20s
What did Richard Arkwright build at Cromford in Derbyshire in 1771?
A water-powered cotton spinning mill
A pottery works for fine china
A steam-powered iron foundry
A canal linking two coal mines
30s
Why did steam power change where factories could be built?
Factories could now be built without any fuel
Mills had to be built next to the sea
Mills no longer had to be beside fast-flowing rivers
Factories could only be built in the countryside
30s
The Factory Act of 1833 banned children below what age from working in textile factories?
9
14
12
5
20s
Which of these was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
The Bridgewater Canal
The Great Western Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway
Cromford Mill
30s
In 1829 Stephenson's Rocket won the Rainhill Trials. Which new railway, opened in 1830, was it built for?
The London and Birmingham Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Great Western Railway
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In 1854 Dr John Snow traced a cholera outbreak in London to its source. What was it?
Fleas carried by rats
A contaminated public water pump
Smoke from factory chimneys
Bad air from rotting rubbish
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The Mines Act of 1842 banned which group from working underground?
All women and girls, and boys under 10
Women, but not any children
All children under 14
Boys under 16, but not girls
30s