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    Before the Industrial Revolution, life was difficult. People lived in rural areas and worked as farmers using manual labor to plow fields and harvest crops. There was no electricity or running water, and transportation infrastructure was limited, making communication between towns challenging. Education was mostly reserved for the wealthy. When the Industrial Revolution began in England between 1760 and 1860, people migrated to cities to work in new factories, and machinery was introduced to assist with agricultural and manufacturing work.

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    Before the Industrial Revolution, life was difficult. People lived in rural areas and worked as farmers using manual labor to plow fields and harvest crops. There was no electricity or running water, and transportation infrastructure was limited, making communication between towns challenging. Education was mostly reserved for the wealthy. When the Industrial Revolution began in England between 1760 and 1860, people migrated to cities to work in new factories, and machinery was introduced to assist with agricultural and manufacturing work.

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    INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 1 LIFE BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL

    REVOLUTION

    The Industrial Revolution was not a war. Rather, it was a process of change in
    the way people lived their lives. It began in England and spread throughout
    Europe, arriving eventually in the United States of America. It had a huge
    effect on human history.

    Before the Industrial Revolution, people did things by hand. The Industrial
    Revolution enabled people to use machines instead. As a result, people went
    from living in the countryside and working on farms to living in cities and
    working in factories.

    The Industrial Revolution took place between 1760 and 1860.

    Life Before the Industrial Revolution

    Before the Industrial Revolution started, life was very hard. People worked on
    farms and had to use their own strength to plow their fields and harvest their
    crops. Farmers did have animals to help but handling the animals could also
    be difficult.

    There was no electricity. People used a stove for cooking, and had to chop and
    burn wood to keep the stove working.

    There were also no bathrooms or running water!

    The roads were smaller and rough as tarmac had not yet been developed.
    There were no cars or trains so communication was difficult. News was spread
    by travellers and goods were only sold in their local area.

    People made goods to sell in their local area only, perhaps reaching a few
    nearby towns. They made clothing from locally-found materials such as animal
    hides and furs. Nylon had not yet been developed, and transportation was not
    good enough to import large quantities of cotton.

    Most people were farmers, working in small towns and villages.


    If you lived in a port city such as London or Bristol, you could benefit from
    imported goods that arrived by ship.

    While there was some technology, it relied on wind and water power, such as
    using a windmill to grind wheat into flour.

    Education was poor and mostly reserved for the rich who could employ private
    tutors. There were schools and universities but again, these were reserved for
    the wealthy.

    The politics of this time in Britian was based upon land ownership so ordinary
    people had little influence and few rights.
    WORKSHEET

    1. Why is the Industrial Revolution described as a revolution?

    2. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

    3. Why did people move into cities?

    4. When did the Industrial Revolution take place?

    5. What occupation did many people have before the Industrial Revolution?

    6. Why did people use wood-burning stoves before the Industrial


    Revolution?

    7. Why were roads rough before the Industrial Revolution?

    8. Why was communication between towns difficult before the Industrial


    Revolution?

    9. Why was cotton generally not used to make clothes before the Industrial
    Revolution?

    10. What types of technology existed before the Industrial Revolution?

    11. What type of people benefitted from university education?

    12. In Britain, why did ordinary people have few rights before the Industrial
    Revolution?

    WRITING TASK

    Write a journal for your normal day but imagine that you live in the days
    before the Industrial Revolution.

    How would you have got washed in the morning?


    What clothes would you have worn?
    Would you have gone to school or would you be working?
    What kind of job would you have?
    How would you travel?
    WORKSHEET

    1. It brought about great change in people's lives, much like a revolution.

    2. England

    3. People moved into the cities so that they could work in factories.

    4. 1760 1860

    5. Farming

    6. There was no electricity.

    7. Tarmac had not yet been developed.

    8. There were no cars or trains.

    9. Transportation was not good enough to import large quantities of


    cotton.

    10. Technology that used wind and water power, such as a windmill.

    11. Wealthy people

    12. The politics in Britian was based upon land ownership which meant only
    the rich could enter politics.

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