Factories and Labor
Period starting around 1750 when businesses started to grow
Industrial revolution
This United States invention had a keyboard
Typewriter
Growth of Cities
Urbanization
Famous author who wrote about poor
Charles Dickens
This movement fought for the right for women to vote
Womens suffrage
How many large waves of immigrants hit the United States between 1820 and 1900
2
Protected workers interests and rights
Labor unions
Samuel Morse invented this to make communication better
Telegraph
This city grew from 1 million to 2.5 million in just 50 years
London
Scottish Economist that wanted to change the social classes.
Adam Smith
The two countries that womens suffrage started
Great Britain and United States (1920's)
Where most immigrants were processed
Ellis Island
Invented the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Carried 36 passengers and could travel 18 miles an hour. Thats a lot of speed
Steam Locomotive
Unregulated city growth led to these problems
Unsafe living conditions, overcrowding, pollution, disease
Between the Super rich upper class and the super poor working class was this class
Middle Class
Between 1820 and 1900 30 million people did this
Immigrated
What two major United States cities did most immigrants flock to
New York and Chicago
These were the ones that were hired for cheap labor
Women and young children
He made this so that we can see in the dark. The lightbulb of course
Thomas Edison
Banned Children younger than 9 years old from working
Britain's Factory Act of 1833
German philosopher that wanted social equality. Otherwise known as the father of Socialism
Karl Marx
When people are forced to leave countries and excited by the promises of other countries
Push-Pull Factor
Chinese immigrants migrated to the west for this reason
Railroad jobs
Produced more textiles than any other country
Great Britain
This invention won a contest to make textile production faster
Sewing machine
Three common diseases that spread in unregulated cities
Tuberculosis, Typhoid, and Cholera
Extreme Socialism that created a classless society with no private property. Everything run by the government
Communism
25% of this population left their country do to a food famine. Rotten Taters
Ireland
A hub for Chicago's immigrants
Hull House