Factory Life
How did living conditions change for people who now work in factories?
Most people worked from home but now they have to move to the big cities where the factories are located.
Countries or regions that are ruled over by a government.
What is an empire?
creating new markets and exploring new lands to discover natural resources
what is economic interests?
The Berlin Conference strongly affected this country.
What is Africa?
roads that were used to pay for road repairs and upgrades.
What is a turnpike?
Explain the working conditions for working-class people.
The factories were cramped with people, hot, and filled with dangeroud machinery.
An area that is controlled by another country.
What is a colony?
what is religion?
A treaty that opened ports and created a deal that the winner of the war was given territory.
What is China?
A way to transport goods and people by lakes or rivers.
What is a canal?
A resource that was used for electricty because it burned hot and long.
What is coal?
An idea of expanding the power of a country to gain economic and political control.
What is imperialism?
attitudes that want to be dominant and win.
what is nationalism?
The Meiji Restoration affected this country.
What is Japan?
a way of transporting people and goods quickly throughout England.
What is the Railway System?
He made improvements on the steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
A system of a country based on trade and profit, ran by private owners.
What is capitalism?
Eurpoeans idea to create civilization and that others should accept their beliefs.
what is ideology?
imperialized many colonies like Africa and Australia.
What is Great Britain?
a way of transportation on water that had 12 paddles ad propelled by a steam engine.
What is a steamboat?
A system of manufactoring based on division of labor and mass production.
What is the factory system?
An economic and political theory that people are worked and paid according to their needs and abilities of services.
What is communism?
as the countries grow, the military grows to protect them
What is military?
the promise of new work and a better life was promised here.
What is Manchester England?
Why was transportation so important during this time?
because people were starting to move to the West and they needed a way to get them and their goods there