Life During the IR
In what nation did the Industrial Revolution start.
Great Britain
A process invented where individuals specialized on one aspect of production.
Assembly Line
A system completely controlled by private ownership. Businesses can make what they want, consumers can buy what they want.
Capitalism
What did mass production caused by the assembly lines result in?
Shares of a company.
Stock
A multi-story apartment structure in which generally poor factory workers had to live.
Tenement
A new type of art that attempted to portray society how it actually was.
Realism
A system where the government owns everything and distributes it throughout society.
Communism
What power source replaced steam power during the second IR?
Electricity
Entrepreneur
A process of combining or consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers.
Enclosure
The invention that kicked off the industrial revolution.
The Steam Engine
A system where the government owns natural resources and the factors of production but there is still a level of private ownership.
Socialism
Both industrial revolutions improved the _______ __ _____ for society.
Standard of Living
Women's right to vote.
Women's Suffrage
A system where tasks were given out and people completed them at their own homes.
Putting-Out System
A machine invented by Eli Whitney that sped production.
Cotton Gin
The main contributor to the idea of Communism; also wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Karl Marx
What were two major inventions that advanced transportation during the second IR?
Social Mobility
A campaign to ban or limit alcohol consumption.
Temperance Movement
A machine invented that generated electricity.
Dynamo
The main contributor to the idea of Capitalism; also wrote The Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith
What were some of the updates made during the second IR that occurred as a result of the growth of cities?
Safety (sidewalks and street lights), Sanitation (sewers), Skyscrapers
Proletariat