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Who were paid poorly during the Industrial Revolution?
a) Farmers
b) Factory workers
c) All
d) None

What could happen to them
a) They could die
b) They could become unemployed
c) Be homeless
d) None

Why could they become unemployed
a) New Machines were being invented
b) These machines would take over doing their jobs
c) All
d) None

What was illegal
a) For workers to resist
b) Organise and work together to go against their employers
c) all
d) None

For how many years did farmers work with grain by hand
a) 20000 years
b) thousands of years
c) 200 years
d) 20 years

When were Threshing machines invented
a) 20th Century
b) 19th Century
c) late 18th Century
d) None

What did the Threshing machine do?
a) It caused many men to be without jobs
b) Created employed
c) Allowed farmers to do their work
d) None

What were Swing riots
a) It was protest and resistance by farm labourers
b) That took place over Southern England in
c) 1830
d) All

Why did the farmers have swing riots
a) To get attention for their unemployment
b) To cause trouble
c) -
d) None

What did leaders do
a) They used the name Captain Swing
b) To keep their real names a secret
c) to avoid being arrested
d) All

The physical attacks on property gave
a) Strength to the demands of farm workers
b) People were not interested in their protests
c) They stopped protesting
d) None

What happened in 1830's and 1840's
a) None
b) A law was passed that helped both the
c) Farm and factory workers
d) Both

What is threshing
a) Pulling of thread
b) Separation of grains of wheat from plants
c) Picking of fruit and vegetables
d) None

Why did the factories cost many craft workers their jobs?
a) The invention of the Power Loom
b) Machines could be worked by few unskilled people
c) This meant that specialised weavers were no longer needed
d) All

Who was the man that got a fit of rage
a) Martin Lurther
b) Ned Ludd
c) Einstien
d) None

What did he do in his rage
a) He would break machines
b) He would attack people
c) He would not go to the farm to work
d) None

What year was he enraged
a) 1776
b) 1879
c) 1778
d) 1779

What happened in 1811
a) Weavers and other workers destroyed factories and machines
b) They were pleased with being unemployed
c) They didn't fight
d) None

The resisters were called
a) The followers
b) The destroyers
c) The Luddites
d) None

How did they get out of trouble
a) -
b) They would blame Ned Ludd
c) Say that he did it
d) All

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