Questions for Unit 8 (Industrial Revolution)

1. What was involved in the Agricultural Revolution that preceded the Industrial Revolution? How did it make the Industrial Revolution possible?
2. When did the Industrial Revolution begin? Why did you choose that date?
3. What were the Factory Acts? What and when was the Reform Bill? Who and when were the Chartists, and what did they want?
4. In which war did Britain acquire much of its first empire? When did the war begin and end? In which war did Britain lose much of its first empire? Who led the victorious army?
5. Thomas Paine lived and worked in three countries. Which countries were they? What did he do there? Name two of his books.