Vocab Pt. 1
Money available for investment
Capital
A person who finds new business opportunities and new ways to make profits
Entrepreneur
This invention had the ability to convert coal into mechanical energy was revolutionary, making it the backbone of industrial machinery and transportation
Steam Engine
The Industrial Revolution started in Britain partly because its rivers provided:
a. cheaper food
b. coal and iron ore
c. transportation and power
d. plentiful labor
c . transportation and power
Bear
Production of goods in quantity usually by machinery
Mass Production
A method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes
Separated cotton fibers from their seeds more quickly and efficiently than doing it manually
Cotton Gin
Industrialization spread rapidly in both Europe and the US thanks to
a. railroads
b. steamboats
c. peasants
d. wealthy investors
a. railroads
What is Miss. Egounis' fiancés name?
Hayden
The process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron
Puddling
A system in which, usually in the form of the government owns and controls the means of production
Socialism
An engine for spinning wool or cotton invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves, who had it patented in 1770.
Spinning Jenny
How did the railroads guarantee the success of the Industrial Revolution?
a. Goods could be moved faster from the factories to the places they would be sold
b. People could travel from their homes in the countryside to the factories in the cities
c. Entrepreneurs were encouraged to invest large amounts of money in the factories that were linked by railroads.
d. Everyone enjoyed riding on the railroads.
a. Goods could be moved faster from the factories to the places they would be sold
Where is Miss. Egounis from?
New Hampshire
An economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing
Industrial Capitalism
The working class
Proletariat
In 1826, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first what?
Photograph
Why did coal production expand greatly during the Industrial Revolution?
a. People preferred to use coal over electricity because it was more powerful
b. Coal was an environmentally clean method of fueling machines
c. New methods of mining coal made it a very easy job
d. Coal was needed to produce iron and to run steam engines
d. Coal was needed to produce iron and to run steam engines
What year was Miss. Egounis born?
2003
A Marxist who rejected the revolutionary approach, believing instead in evolution by democratic means to achieve the goal of socialism
Revisionists
Pioneered by Henry Ford in 1913, a manufacturing method that allowed much more efficient mass production of goods
Assembly Line
The first recorded steam railway journey took place on 21 February 1804, when Cornishman Richard Trevithick’s ‘Pen-y-Darren’ _______ carried ten tons of iron, five wagons and seventy men the 9.75 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal in four hours and five minutes.
Locomotive
The factory created a new labor system in which
a. products were produced by an assembly line of workers and animals
b. workers had to work regular hours and perform repetitive tasks
c. machines were valued more highly than the workers who ran them.
d. workers had to adjust to periods of hectic work followed by idle periods
b. workers had to work regular hours and perform repetitive tasks
How many siblings does Miss. Egounis have?
2