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Productive work, especially physical work done for wages
What is labour?
The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Britain?
Richard Arkwright patented this spinning machine in 1769.
What is the water frame?
This process happened as people moved from rural areas to cities for factory jobs.
What is urbanization?
This English king had 6 wives, most of which he killed.
Who is Henry VIII?
A businessperson engaged in retail trade.
What is a merchant?
The decline of these organizations allowed more competition and creativity.
What are guilds?
James Hargreaves created a new type of spinning machine around 1764.
What is the spinning jenny?
Industrialization made many manufactured goods become ...
What is cheaper?
Most populated country in the world.
What is India?
Basic facilities needed for the functioning of a country.
What is infrastructure?
Britain's access to this resource helped power factories, trains, and steam engines.
What is coal?
Thomas Newcomen invented the first ... in 1711. Five decades later, James Watt improved upon Newcomen’s creation.
What is steam engine?
Rapid city growth often led to overcrowding, poor sanitation, and this major problem.
What is disease?
A book series about a young boy who finds out he's half-god and fights monsters.
A self-propelled vehicle that draws a train along a track.
What is a locomotive?
These encouraged people to invest in innovation by ensuring they could protect and profit from their inventions.
What are patent laws?
In 1913, Henry Ford created the ... in his car factories, using conveyor belts to transport component parts across different stations.
What is assembly line?
This disease spread easily in crowded industrial cities with poor sanitation.
What is cholera?
What is typhus?
A genre of music featuring catchy melodies and strong beats.
What is pop (music)?
An economic system based on private ownership of assets.
What is capitalism?
This system helped in cementing the downfall of guilds, marking the beginning of the industrial Revolution.
What is the factory system?
Samuel Morse used Michael Faraday’s generator to create another landmark apparatus, the ... , one of the earliest text-messaging devices.
What is telegraph?
The burning of a certain fossil fuel to power factories released greenhouse gases and begun this global phenomenon.
What is climate change/global warming?
The father of the American Industrial Revolution, aka the traitor to the English.