All About the Industrial Revolution

Inventions

100

This invention shown below was used to quickly separate cotton fibers from their seeds and was more efficient than separating by hand.

The Cotton Gin

200

This invention shown below was an improved version of existing models and was utilized as a way of producing power for machinery.

The Watt Steam Engine

300

This invention was a drug that prevents pain during surgery and is still used to this day in medical practices.

Anesthetic

400

This invention would be used to thread clothing with eight spindles and a single wheel which was much faster than having to knit by hand.

Spinning Jenny

500

This invention was a machine that was used to generate electricity and was the first electric motor.

Dynamo

Important People & Groups

100

This person was responsible for innovating the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution.

James Watt (the inventor of the Watt Steam Engine)

200

This German political philosopher viewed the Industrial Revolution as an opportunity for the Proletariat to rise and for the workers to take control of the factories from the capitalist class. His ideas would later be the foundations of communism.

Karl Marx

300

These groups were a collective of workers banding together to protect worker rights in factories and would even have protested if conditions were not favorable to the workers.

Labor Unions

400

This inventor made the first electric light bulb and a lot of other notable inventions including the phonograph, motion picture, and direct current. 

Thomas Edison

500

These two brothers were aviation pioneers and were responsible for beginning the Air Age by flying their airplane for a few seconds in 1903.

Orville and Wilbur Wright; the Wright Brothers

Beginning of the Industrial Revolution

100

This word refers to money or wealth used to invest in a business or enterprise.

Capital

200

This word describes an individual to takes financial risks in hopes of making a profit.

Entrepreneur

300

This system was developed in the 18th century where tasks were given to individuals who completed the work in their own homes.

Putting-out System

400

This term is referred to a large, crowded urban area. Take New York City for example.

Urban Center

500

This term refers to taking over and consolidating land that was previously shared or owned by peasant farmers.

Enclosure

Social Impacts of Industrialism

100

This word describes the movement where people from rural areas move to large cities filled with factories and housing developments.

Urbanization

200

This multistory building is divided into crowded apartments where residents lived in substandard conditions but were cheap.

Tenement

300

This type of economic concept followed an unregulated exchange of goods and services with no government involvement.

Free Market

400

This ideological system refers to where people as a whole, instead of private individuals, own all property and operate all businesses.

Socialism

500

This word refers to the idea that the goal of society should be to bring the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.

Utilitarianism

Second Industrial Revolution

100

This production method breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks increasing production efficiency.

Assembly Line

200

This word refers to a business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk only the amount of their investment.

Corporation

300

This word refers to a group of companies that join together to control the production and price of a product.

Cartel

400

These two words mean identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing.

Interchangeable Parts

500

This theory refers to infectious diseases like Cholera and Typhoid Fever are caused by certain microbes.

Germ Theory