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HISTORY
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| industrial revolution | was the change in the way things were made man made to machine made |
| why britain ? | because britain had an abundance of natural recourses like coal and iron |
| textiles | textiles were cloth/clothing or any thing people wore or used to make cloths |
| factories | were the place that goods/products were made and produced |
| James Watt | James Watt invented the first ever steam engine |
| Steam Engine | the steam engine used steam to propel the factories so you dont have to build near water anymore |
| The Rocket | the rocket was the first steam powered train |
| Benefits of the iron Horse | It linked a lot of major states together it was a rail road cut ravel time drastecly |
| Robert Fulton | He built the first steam powered boat |
| benefits of the steam powered ship | people could now travel to different continents and it made travel on water a lot easier and faster |
| Changes in farming | Cyrus Mcormick invented the horse drawn reaper John Deer invented the better plow |
| Cyrus Mcormick | invented the horse drawn reaper |
| John Deer | invented a better more efficient plow |
| Middle Class | the middle class was the somewhat beter off people then the working class they owned the mills and factories |
| working class | the working class were the work horses of the industrial revolution the working class usually lived in cramoped quareters they made every thing |
| life in industrial cities | life in the industrial cities was bad there was free running sewage and black smoke porinhg out of the smoke stacks |
| unions | a union is a group of people who join together to demand better working condidtions |
| strike | when union members left their jobs to demand better work conditions and pay |
| Karl Marx | he believed that the workers would take over the entire government |
| socialism | the support of public out rage of all the recources and industries |