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The industrial rev.
History, 2013
Term | Definition |
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The Industrial Reolution | A period in time when many new inventions helped productivity, creating new jobs |
Why Britan? | Britain had a large population, merchants, and materials |
Textiles | Cloth with a high demand |
Factories | Buildings that produce goods, powered by running water |
James Watt | Invented the steam engine |
Steam engine | Used cole for fuel and made it possible for factories to be away from running water |
The Rocket | A train that went 16 mph, could transport goods and people |
Benefits of the "the iron horse" | Passengers and goods could be brought into different countries and areas, faster |
Robert Fulton | An American, built the first successful steamship |
Benefits of steam powered ships | Cargo and passengers could be carried long distances in large groups |
Changes in farming | There were many new machines to increase productivity |
Cyrus McCormick | An American who came up with the horse drawn reaper |
John Deere | An American who came up with a better, steel plow |
The middle class | The middle class was fairly wealthy and included people like farmers merchants and bankers |
The working class | The largest class comprised of people who came looking for a better job and had terrible conditions |
Life in industrial cities | The working-class people with a poorly built houses and has terrible living conditions while people the middle class had it better |
Unions | A group of workers join together to demand higher working conditions |
Strike | A way to demand higher working conditions where you quit your job until you get your way |
Karl Marx | German thinker who thought at all workers should have good treatment |
Socialism | Carl Marx's ideas which began to catch on in other countries |