Vocabulary
Word For Clothes
Textiles
Growth of cities
Urbanization
The political movement led by women for voting rights.
Suffrage
Allowed people to communicate quickly and cheaply across long distances.
Telegraph
Mechanized the separation of cotton fibers from their seeds.
Cotton Gin
Connected rivers to make a big waterways (lakes)
Canals
Laws on farming
Enclosure movement
The same job repeatedly, for 12-14 hours.
Assembly Line
Boiling water creates hot steam which drives one or more pistons back and forth.
Steam Engine
List two cause of the Industrial Revolution
Population Increase
Agricultural Revolution
Britain was rich In Natural Resources
Revolution in Britain (domestic and factory systems)
Transportation Revolution
This word means corn
Maize
Moving from one place to another
Migration
The right to vote for everyone
19th Amendment
Charged Tolls
Turnpike
List 3 Impacts of the Industrial Revolution
•Scientific advancements = better medicine
•Better medicine = longer lives = more people alive at same time
•Leads to growth of middle class
•If you’re poor, you’re really poor (class divisions are big)
•People move to cities to work in factories à city populations grow
•Machines (engines, trains, cars) lead to pollution
•Creation of labor unions
•Workers go on strike to demand better conditions, pay
•More people belong to the middle class
Diseases that killed people during this time.
Plague
Resources that come from the earth.
Natural Resources
The government should stay out our business/ money. Focus on protecting the community and government.
Laissez faire
Electric Lights
Electricity
**Minecraft**
Iron ore
Coal
Employing machine power, division of labor, and unskilled workers.
Factory System
Work from home or have a trade where you traveled to customers homes.
Allowed for finer threads to be produced.
Spinning Mule
Increased the speed of weaving.
Spinning Mule
Steam power was a more reliable new way to generate more power.
Steam power