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I.D.
industrial revolution
| labor union: | workers organization |
| Tenement: | multi-storied building divided into many apartments |
| Urbanization: | When people move from rural areas (the country) to the cities |
| Who was Eli Whitney? | Inventor of the cotton gin |
| Entrepreneur | A person who organizes and operates their own business or businesses, despite the financial risk |
| Capital | money or wealth used to invest in businesses or enterprises. |
| Standard of living | A measure of the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in society. |
| Urban renewal | Process of fixing up some of the poor and run down areas of a city. |
| Assembly line | Breaking down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks. |
| Interchangeable parts | Identical pieces that can be swapped out for one another during manufacturing. |
| Thomas Edison | inventor of the first functional electric light bulb. |
| Henry Bessemer | Created the Bessemer process, a process for creating steel. |
| Causes of the industrial revolution: | The agrarian revolution, a population explosion,a revolution in energy. |
| Effect of the industrial revolution: | Urbanization, garbage-filled overcrowded city-streets, poor working conditions, new class structure. |
| What was the new class structure? | The upper class were rich industrial business owners, upper middle class professionals like doctors and lawyers, lower class teachers shop owners office workers. |
| Ending of urbanization game. | In the end every square inch of the city was either covered in factors, houses or pubs it was overcrowded, disgusting, and full of crime. |
| Where did the industrial revolution begin. | It began in Britain and then spread to Germany and Japan |
| How did it spread. | Exploration and Colonization. |
| Describe one invention | The mechanical reaper, As it moved, a vibrating blade swung back and forth, cutting grain as it rode through the fields. As the contraption progressed, a divider would separate the cut grain from standing grain. |
| How does the mechanical reaper work? | As it moved, a vibrating blade swung back and forth, cutting grain as it rode through the fields. As the contraption progressed, a divider would separate the cut grain from standing grain.It could be raked up and bound like normal. |
| What was its impact on the industrial revolution. | with McCormick's Reaper, one man with a horse could harvest large fields in a day. It was therefore possible to have larger farms with hundreds possibly thousands of acres. |
| Why were women and children hired to work in factory's | Because they could pay them less, also children were small so they could make them crawl into tight spaces (like the machines). |
| Laissez-Faire | (free to do) A business could do whatever they wanted and the government shouldn´t interfere. |
| Why were factories originally built on the river? | Factories were run by water powered machines such as the spinning mule also goods would be shipped international via the river. |
| Cottage industry | Spinners and weavers making clothing at home |
| Factory system. | Method of mass production machines and workers brought together to produce large quantities. |
| Industry, initially transformed by the industrial revolution in England. | |
| How did the rail roads contribute to changes within the industrial revolution. | Increased industry, connected cities and towns together including connecting one end of Britain to the other. |
| Jethro Tull | Invented the seed drill |
| Great Britain had all three of these factors of production (hit: L.L.C) | Land:natural resources like coal rivers harbors etc. Labor:a growing population that made a willing workforce. Capital:funds for investment from wealthy citizens. |
| Effects on middle class women | Middle class women , enjoyed more economic opportunities., greater access to education, and were affected by the idea of separate spheres. |
| Effects on working class women | Separated from families, found jobs because more people could afford to hire them some or no improvement to status. |
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