Vocabulary
Name of the housing that workers lived in during the Industrial Revolution.
Tenement
This economic system allows individuals to own and operate businesses.
Capitalism
This type of engine allowed factories to be built anywhere.
Steam
Britain had a large amount of this type of fuel to power factories and machines.
Coal
This term is when someone is fired for trying to start a labor union or complaining about their working conditions.
Blacklisting
This is a group of workers who organize to create better working conditions.
Labor Union
This economic system has government owned businesses and all wealth is evenly distributed.
Communism
Eli Whitney invented this machine to speed up the processing of a particular plant.
Cotton Gin
Name one physical feature that Great Britain possessed that made it ideal for Industrialization.
Rivers
Harbors
Coal Mines
This group was paid the least in factories and mills.
Children
This means the movement of people to cities and the transition from farms to cities.
Urbanization
This economic system tries to balance wealth and inequality by providing universal healthcare and education.
Socialism
This invention allowed for faster and cheaper transportation.
Locomotive (Train)
Provide one reason Britain's population double within a 100 year time period.
Hygiene/Sanitation
Medical Care
Better farming = more food
Name three negatives effects of the Industrial Revolution.
Pollution
Disease (Cancer, Tumors, etc.)
Increase in Crime & Alcoholism
Child Labor
Deforestation
Poor Working Conditions
Poor Living Conditions
The process of separating iron from its ore.
Smelting
Karl Marx called the working people this term in his "Communist Manifesto".
Proletariat
This man-made waterway made it possible to transport goods and resources to new places.
Canal
Britain had many people who were willing to invest the money needed to start a business. What is the vocabulary term for this type of person?
Entrepreneur
Name four positives about the Industrial Revolution.
Faster Production
Machine-made products
More jobs
Better health care
Education
Faster Transportation
The process of taking over and consolidating land formerly share by peasant farmers.
Enclosure
This French term refers to when the government is "hands-off" with business.
Laissez-Faire
Name one of the inventions used in a textile or cloth factory.
Power Loom/Flying Shuttle
Spinning Jenny
Water Frame
What did Britain have that would protect their shipments around the world?
A powerful navy.
This type of labor contract makes it impossible for workers to join a labor union.
Yellow Dog Contract