Industrial Revolution
Labor
Factory
A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured.
Strike
A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest.
William Wilberforce
A British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.
Communism
A society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Cotton Mills
a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton
Canal
An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland
Atlantic Slave Trade
Global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
James Watt
a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on the steam engine
Capitalism
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Child Labor
Children used to go to work and do jobs in the factory as an adult would.
Railroads
A track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which trains run on.
Picket
A person or group of people standing outside a place of work or other venue protesting.
Louis Pasteur
A French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination
Socialism
a political theory of organization which says that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Textile Factory
the conversion of fiber into yarn, then yarn into fabric.
Urbanization
The process of making an area more urban, or less rural.
Boycott
withdraw from commercial or social relations as a protest.
Charles Darwin
An English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary biology
Union (Labor Union)
An organization formed by workers in a particular trade, industry, or company for the purpose of improving pay, benefits, and working conditions.
Coal Mines
The process of extracting coal from the ground. Miners used to spend days in the mine and would mine coal to make a living.
Assembly Line
Manufacturing systems in which work-in-progress moves from station to station in a sequential fashion.
Plantations
Large farms in the colonies that used the enforced labor of slaves to harvest crops.
Thomas Edison
an American inventor and businessman who created the light bulb.
Mercantilism
Belief in the benefits of profitable trading