Vocab
This invention increased spinning production which led to an increase in industrialization
Spinning Jenny
The Industrial Revolution began in this country.
Britain
True or False: women and children generally suffered worse than others in the Industrial Revolution.
True.
This city in Massachusetts is one of the most significant and first examples of industrialization spreading past Great Britain.
Lowell
Poor working conditions in the Industrial Revolution led to the creation of ___________ by workers to bargain for better rights, wages, and conditions at work.
Labor Unions
Steam Engine
This agricultural practice allowed for populations to grow significantly due to more access to food.
Crop Rotation
List AT LEAST three examples of the conditions workers faced in the Industrial Revolution.
Low wages, long hours, hazardous work conditions, no vacation, racial discrimination, gender discrimination, child labor.
Due to these natural resources, the United States saw a similar boom in industrialization as Great Britain.
Oil, Coal, Iron-Ore.
The Industrial Revolution saw the popularization of these two reform movements aimed at acquiring more rights for Black people and for women.
Abolition and Feminism
This form of travel sped up the process of industrialization and allowed it to spread and grow faster.
Steam Driven Trains/Locomotives or Steam Boats
True or False: Industrialization led to urbanization.
True, people started moving to cities as a result of industrialization.
How did workers respond to inreasingly worse working conditions?
Labor strikes, labor unionization.
Big businesses, also called ____________, sprang up wherever industrialization spread and increased wealth for their owners.
Corporations.
This economic policy prioritizes minimal government intervention in the economy.
Capitalism (will accept laissez-faire economics)
The textile industry focuses on making this material.
Cloth
The "revolution" that took place before the Industrial Revolution and partially caused the Industrial Revolution was: __________.
Agricultural Revolution.
The name of the middle class that emerged out of the Industrial Revolution: ____________. (French term)
Bourgeoisie.
This nation was the first in continental Europe to experience industrialization.
Belgium
Define Communism.
A form of complete socialism in which the means of production---all land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses---would be owned by the people.
The three facors of production are ___________
In which century did the Industrial Revolution begin?
18th century (1700s)
Explain some of the positive impacts that the Industrial Revolution had on society? What improvements were made?
The spread of industrialization across Europe also led to an increase in this phenomonen, usually characterized by very few people having a vast majority of the wealth in a country, while the majority of the population has a very small piece of a nation's wealth.
Define Utilitarianism.
The philosophy that people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions on the basis of their usefulness. Government should try to ptomote the greatest good for the greatest number of people.