Made by Samuel Morse in 1837 United States. Used electrical impulses to send coded messages across wires. Revolutionized communication.
What was the Telegraph?
This person created the first telephone?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
What were some positive social effects of the Industrial Revolution?
What is better standard of living, jobs for working class --comfort, etc.
When wealthy landowners bought up small farms and improved farming methods, this was known as the ___
Enclosure Movement or Agricultural Revolution.
The system of growing a different crop in a field each year.
What is crop rotation ?
Workers lived in dark, dirty, apartment buildings known as
tenements
William and Orville Wright created this monumental invention.
What is the airplane
This guy was responsible for the creation of the assembly line and the Model T.
Who is Henry Ford?
Who felt the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Who were the - working poor
- factory workers
- lower class
How did the Agricultural Revolution contribute to the Industrial Revolution?
It produced more food using machines which resulted in a population boom.
Large buildings in which machinery is used to manufacture goods.
What are factories?
Invented by James Hargreaves. Helped expand the textile industry. This machine could do the work of 10+ people and made textiles cheaper to produce.
What was the spinning Jenny?
Who was responsible for originally developing the economic philosophy of capitalism
Adam Smith
Who felt the positive effects of the Industrial Revolution
Who are factory owners ,upper middle class, gov't ,landowners, businesses
What are the 3 factors of production?
Land, Labor, capital
The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
What is industrialization?
Invented by Eli Whitney. Separated fibers from the cotton seed. It expanded slavery greatly, due to the higher demand in cotton.
What was the cotton gin?
Name one of the guys who developed the ideas of utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham or John Stuart Mill
What were some positive economic effects of the Industrial Revolution?
What was -cheaper products that everyone could buy
- increase in world manufacturing output --money and progress
Why did the U.S. have an Industrial Revolution in the 1800s?
British blockaded the U.S. during the War of 1812--caused the U.S. to want to industrialize.
An economic system which the means of production (all land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses) would be owned by the people. All goods and service would be shared equally and all private property would cease to exist.
What is communism?
Perfected by James Watt. Were used with locomotive trains and steamboats. Made it much easier to transport resources and raw materials.
What was the steam engine?
Prussian journalist who was an important critic of capitalism. He believed that all great changes in history came from changes in economic conditions. Known as the father of communism
Who was karl Marx?
How were factory conditions during the Industrial Revolution?
What is overworked,basic needs not met --no food or water, inhumane conditions,not a living wage, plus men got twice as much as women, and no safety or medical careers
Who invented the idea that heating liquids destroy bacteria?
Louis Pasteur
iThis terms refers to the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without government interference.
What is laissez-faire?