Question 1

What are tenements?

Accepted Answer

Shoddily built apartment buildings, often in slums

(worker families crowded into tenements because they were cheap)

Question 2

What are slums?

Accepted Answer

Poor and overcrowded areas in cities where poor people are often forced to live

Question 3

How did the Industrial Revolutions affect urban areas?

Accepted Answer

Urban areas grew very quickly and without planning, often leading to tenements and slums from overcrowding

Question 4

What is the working class?

Accepted Answer

People who labor in factories and coal mines

(bottom of the social hierarchy)

Question 5

What are white-collar workers?

Accepted Answer

Middle-class workers that often managed factories or offices

Question 6

How did the Industrial Revolution affect children?

Accepted Answer

Before it was illegal, child laborers were put into hazardous factories or coal mines

Question 7

Why did factories prefer to hire women after the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Factories could pay women much less than they could pay men

Question 8

What effect did the Industrial Revolution have on the environment?

Accepted Answer

Lots of air and water pollution, which led to disease

Question 9

What effect did the Industrial Revolution have on middle-class women?

Accepted Answer

They were influenced to become very domestic and stay at home

This eventually started the feminist movement

Question 10

What is mass production?

Accepted Answer

Production of large amounts of goods, often by a semi-automated mechanical process

Question 11

How did canals contribute to the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Canals provided easy transportation, which allowed for the mass movement of resources into factories

(also moved workers)

5.9 - Social Effects of Industrialization, AP World History: Modern Flashcards