the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, control and expansion of colonies and lands by people from another nation.
What is colonialism?
100
A person or business who buys and uses a good or product
What is a consumer?
100
a specific manufacturing process in which parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from work station to work station and parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.
What is assembly line?
100
Which method -- craft/domestic or factory -- produced higher quality skates?
What is craft/domestic system?
100
System of manufacturing that began in the 18th century and is based on the concentration of industry into specialized—and often large—factories.
What is the factory system?
200
the production of large amounts of products, including and especially on assembly lines.
What is mass production?
200
a widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, technology and ideas between Europe and the “New World” after the voyage by Columbus in 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
labor/jobs that requires relatively little or no training or experience (ex: cut out left boot)
What is unskilled labor?
200
When you made skates in a "factory" you made them on an _____________ _______.
What is an assembly line?
200
a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
What is a steam engine?
300
a flexible woven material consisting (cloth) of a network of natural or artificial fibers often referred to as thread or yarn.
What is textile?
300
The factories, machinery and equipment owned by a business that produces a good.
What is capital?
300
a fundamental change in the way goods were produced: from human labor (by hand) to machines (by factory).
What is Industrial Revolution?
300
Which system -- craft/domestic or factory -- produced skates more efficiently (more quickly)?
What is the factory system?
300
The socioeconomic class consisting of people who work for wages, especially low wages, including unskilled and semiskilled laborers and their families.
What is working class?
400
a political and economic system in which most forms of economically valuable property and resources are owned or controlled by the public or the state.
What is socialism?
400
an economic system based on open competition in a free market, in which individuals and companies own the means of production and operate for profit
What is capitalism?
400
The economic system of production before the Industrial Revolution, where goods and products were made by hand
What is the craft/domestic system?
400
Which system -- craft/domestic or factory -- required you to have more skill?
What is craft/domestic?
400
a communication system that transmits electric signals over wires from location to location that translated into a message.
What is a telegraph?
500
The factors necessary to produce a good or product. These are land, labor, technology, capital and resources.
What are the factors of production?
500
The social science that describes the factors that determine the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
What is economics?
500
A material or substance used in the primary production or manufacturing of a good such as natural resources like oil, iron and wood.
What is raw materials?
500
the trees used to make the paper to make the skates is an example of this.
What is raw material?
500
Large apartments and housing that poor people lived in, especially at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Often horrible living conditions.