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WHII Unit 7 Test
Industrial Revolution Test Review
Term | Definition |
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E ngland | Industrial Revolution began here in the early 1800s |
Owners | controlled the first early factories with no government regulations |
Cottage Industry | before factories, many people worked at home producing hand-made goods, this was known as- |
Enclosure Movement | British government stopped leasing land to farmers in the 1800s, and fenced off land |
Cities | because of the Enclosure Movement in England, many people moved to the ___ looking for jobs |
Raw Materials | AKA Natural Resources |
Coal and Iron | England's natural resources |
Coal | natural resources that can be burned to power machines |
Iron Ore | natural resources that can be used to make steel |
Textile | the first factories in England were ____ industries and made clothes |
No | Yes or No? Industry would only be found in England |
Asia and Africa | In addition to England's natural resources, what other two contientns were full of raw materials? |
Capitalism | idea that competition drives success and the most productive factories would become successful and wealthy |
Child Labor | Industrial Revolution Working Conditions: Young children working in factories, paid less than adults |
Long Hours | Industrial Revolution Working Conditions: Typical workweek- 6 days/12+ hours a day |
Low Pay | Industrial Revolution Working Conditions: Owners decide pay rate |
Dangerous | Industrial Revolution Working Conditions: Many factories and coal mines were ____ |
Controleed | Industrial Revolution Working Conditions: Owners ____ workers though pay |
Profits | Because of the lack of government regulations in the early Industrial Revolution, factory owners became rich and increased- |
wage | rate of pay for a worker |
Cities | because of the population increase these areas were often crowded, unsanitary, and dangerous |
Henry Bessemer | Technological Innovation: Better quality/process steel production |
Eli Whitney | Technological Innovation: Cotton Gin, causes an increased demand for slavery in the Southern states in the US |
James Hargreaves | Technological Innovation: Spinning Jenny for textile production |
John Kay | Technological Innovation: Flying Shuttle Weaving process in textile production speed increased |
James Watt | Technological Innovation: Steam Engine, leading to transportation improvements |
Robert Fulton | Technological Innovation: Steamboat |
Louis Pasteur | Technological Innovation: Discovery of microorganisms/bacteria |
Edward Jenner | Technological Innovation: Smallpox immunization/vaccines |
Labor Unions | Groups of workers that lobby for better working conditions/pay |
Strike | Workers could collectively stop working to stop factory production this is called a - |
Collective Bargaining | Workers and factory owners decide on terms to meet demands of unhappy workers |
Shorter | Eventually, workers gain: _____ work day |
Minimum | Eventually, workers gain: _______ Wage laws |
Safety | Eventually, workers gain: Workplace ______ laws |
Child Labor | Eventually, workers gain: _____________ laws to keep young children out of factories and in school |
Suffrange | Eventually, workers gain: Women's right to vote or ________ |
Standard of Living | Eventual Positive Impacts of industrial Revolution: living conditions or _____ increase |
Transportation | Eventual Positive Impacts of industrial Revolution: Steambots, steam-powered trains and tractors |
Education | Eventual Positive Impacts of industrial Revolution: As more child labor laws are passed, more children received- |
Middle Class | Eventual Positive Impacts of industrial Revolution: Working class or ______ grows as wages rise |
Pollution | Eventual Negative Impacts of industrial Revolution: air and water _____ especially in industrial cities |
Population | Impacts of industrial Revolution: ______ increases in industrialized nations (number of people living in an area) |
Urbanization | Impacts of industrial Revolution: Growth of cities aka- |
Adam Smith | Author of the Wealth of Nations |
Laissez-faire | Capitalist idea that government should not involve itself in economy |
Entrepreneur | person who starts or runs their own business |
Competitin | Capitalism idea that _____ motivates success and better products/prices |
Individual | Capitalism idea that the ____ is most important |
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels | Communist Manifesto Authors |
Das Kapital | in addition to the Communist Manifesto, this book spells out communist ideas |
Society | Communist idea that the ____ is most important |
Government | Communist idea that the ____ should have total control |
Equally | Communist idea that wealth should be distributed _____ |
Private Property | Communist idea that everything is shred and controlled by the government so no person owns ___ |
New | Communist idea is ____ and in response to the injustices of the Indsustrial Revolution |