Industrial Revolution
This Revolution change production from mostly handmade goods to machine made goods
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This economic system is based on private ownership and investment for profit.
What is capitalism?
This term describes the movement of people from rural areas into cities.
What is urbanization?
This term described the belief that the United States was meant to expand westward across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This inventor became famous for improvements involving electricity and the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
This revolution improved farming through things like crop rotation and selective breeding. It also helped supply a workforce for factories
What is Agricultural Revolution?
Adam Smith supported this idea that businesses should generally operate without government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
These organizations were created by workers to negotiate for better wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
This movement in Britain pushed for political reforms and expanded voting rights.
What was the Chartist Movement?
This inventor helped develop the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
What is coal and iron?
This economic system called for public ownership of the factors of production and economic planning for the welfare of society
What is socialism?
These workers destroyed machines because they believed the machines were threatening their jobs.
Who were the Luddites?
This word means the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
These two brothers are credited with developing the first successful powered airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
Factories, railroads and steamships became possible on a much larger scale of because of improvements made to this machine
What is the steam engine?
This man wrote the Communist Manifesto and argued that society was divided between the wealthy owners and workers.
Who is Karl Marx?
Factory workers often faced long hours, low wages, unsafe workplaces, and the employment of these young workers.
Who are children?
This 1832 British law expanded voting rights and changed representation in Parliament.
What was the Reform Bill of 1832?
This production method allowed Henry Ford's factories to produce automobiles more quickly and cheaper
Explain how industrialization changed where people lived and the types of jobs they had
A factory owner follows capitalism, while another person argues that factories should be publicly owned for the benefit of everyone. What two economic ideas are being described?
What are capitalism and socialism?
Explain how poor working conditions during industrialization contributed to the growth of labor unions
Workers organized into labor unions to demand better wages, shorter hours, safer conditions, and reforms such as limits on child labor.
Explain how westward expansion contributed to tensions between the North and South before the Civil War.
As the United States expanded, Americans disagreed over whether slavery would expand into new territories. These disagreements increased tensions between the North and South.
What is germ theory?