Start of Industrialization
What is machinery?
The places that industrialized first were those that had the qualities most like which nation?
What is England?
Tech that allowed a weaver to spin more than one thread at a time.
What is the spinning jenny?
New economic theory that believed in minimal government involvement in economics and believed in the invisible hand of the market.
What is Laissez Faire Capitalism?
This European country was the first to industrialize, largely due to its access to coal and iron.
What is England?
One of the major techs in transportation that rose up and allowed goods to be spread across long distances.
What are railroads or steam engines?
A production advancement that made all parts identical so they can easily be replaced.
What is interchangeable parts?
This term refers to the practice of employing children in factories and mines during the early stages of industrialization.
What is child labor?
The practice of planting different crops in the same area in a planned sequence, so that crops of the same species don't grow in the same field without interruption was called?
The nation that industrialized and was well known for its trans-siberian railroad was...
What is Russia?
This invention, patented by Richard Arkwright in 1769, played a crucial role in the mechanization of textile production that used waterpower to drive the spinning wheel.
What is the water frame?
The societal cultural increase of buying products not out of necessity but rather personal joy
what is consumer culture?
What is the agricultural revolution?
The fairly new nation that industrialized but had political stability rapid population growth, and massive territory was....
What is the United States?
This British entrepreneur played a significant role in the development of the steam engine, a crucial innovation of the Industrial Revolution.
Who is James Watt?
This movement emerged in the early 19th century, advocating for better working conditions, higher wages, and workers' rights.
What is the labor union movement?
The push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it was called...
What is the enclosure movement?
This Japanese period of rapid modernization and industrialization, initiated in the late 19th century, propelled Japan into becoming a major world power
What is the Meiji Restoration?
A metallurgical process that uses a blast of air to remove impurities from molten iron, resulting in steel. The process involves blowing compressed air through hot liquid metal to burn out impurities like carbon. This process is used to mass-produce steel, making it cheaper to produce and more versatile than iron
What is the Bessemer process?
Large corporations began controlling or dominating the supply of a specific trade or commodity or service.
What is a monopoly?