Inventions
What is the spinning jenny?
What is an invention that allowed for multiple threads to be spun at once, which sped up textile production?
This businessman made his fortune in steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Factories mostly hired this gender?
What is female?
This system is based on private ownership and profit.
What is capitalism?
People moved from farms to cities in this process.
What is urbanization?
This machine harnessed water power to speed up the weaving process.
What is the Power Loom?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Many children worked in factories doing this type of labor.
What is child labor?
This system is where the government controls resources and businesses.
What is socialism?
This type of pollution increased due to factories.
What is air pollution?
This invention by Eli Whitney helped clean cotton faster.
What is the cotton gin?
This inventor improved the steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
Workers formed these groups to fight for better conditions.
What are labor unions?
This term describes one company controlling an entire industry.
This class grew as factory workers increased.
This invention improved transportation and was powered by steam.
What is the steam locomotive?
This inventor created the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This term means stopping work to protest conditions.
What is a strike?
Rockefeller used this strategy of controlling all parts of production.
What is vertical integration?
This improved transportation system helped move goods across the country.
What are railroads?
This invention allowed goods to be produced faster in factories using interchangeable parts.
What is the assembly line?
This industrialist created the Model T and used assembly line production.
Who is Henry Ford?
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory known for?
It's dangerous working conditions.
Carnegie used this strategy of buying out competitors
What is horizontal integration?
This term describes the gap between rich and poor during industrialization.
What is wealth inequality?