Urbanization
Pneumonia, influenza, small pox
Before this was invented, the spinning wheel was used to turn cotton into thread.
What is the spinning jenny?
A group that gets together to protect workers rights
What is a union?
What is the heartland?
To find work and provide for them and their famillies.
Why did people immigrate to the city?
After the spinning Jenny was used widely, this was the next update to the machines used to create thread. It was powered by running water.
What is the Water Frame
The physical and non-physical systems in place that help the economy
Refusing to work until your demands are met.
What is going on strike?
The part of the country that has the raw resources and sends it to be produced. Usually a rural place with a lower population.
What is the hinterland?
Very little hygiene and over crowding in houses and streets.
Why were disease so easily spread during the Industrial Revolution?
This machine, invented by James Watt, changed transportation in Europe.
What is the steam engine?
The changing of an economy due to the technology and resources of the time. It happens slowly over long periods of time.
What is economic development.
They banned workers from joining unions, and threatened up to three months in jail for anyone who joined one.
What is the Combination Acts?
Social mobility
What are things industrial societies believe they offer as benefits?
There was not enough livable spaces in the cities.
Why were people overcrowded in the city?
This machine was used in the United States during the 1800s to help speed up the process of picking cotton to be turned into thread
What is the cotton gin?
What is the Agricultural Revolution
In 1824, these acts were repealed.
What is the Combination Acts?
People were faithful to the church and obedient to what the church said was right and wrong.
People only produced what they needed to survie
What were the social and economic beliefs prior to the Industrial Revolution?
This classic Christmas story was set during the Industrial Revolution, and features three ghosts; the past, the present, and the future.
What is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
This was invented in the 1830s, and was the fastest way to communicate before the invention of the phone. It was used via wires
What is the telegraph.
A type of capitalism focused on creating goods and selling them for a profit.
What is the Cottage System
Kids less than 8 years old could not work
kids 9-13 could only work 8 hours a day
kids 14-18 could not work more than 12 hours a day
Kids under 18 could not work at night time
All children had to do a minimum of 2 hours of school a day
What is the Factory Act of 1833?
Women were seen as homemakers and were discouraged from entering into the work force.
What were traditional womens roles?