The population in farm villages _______ because of the Industrial Revolution
What is decreased?
100
The movement of people to cities
What is urbanization?
100
This was the first major industry to form.
What is the textile industry?
100
I improved the assembly line and used it to produce cars
Who is Henry Ford?
200
Improving the steam engine was my claim to fame
Who is James Watt?
200
This was the name given to businesses that were operated out of homes.
What is the Cottage Industry?
200
People left the farm life because cities had this...
What are factories/work?
200
Steam engines in factories were powered by the steam given off by water that was heated by this natural resource.
What is coal?
200
An economic and social system in which capital is privately owned
What is capitalism?
300
Inventor of the spinning jenny
Who is James Hargreaves?
300
This revolution improved the quality and quantity of food
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
300
Towns that were located near these, iron for example, had a huge population increase during the Industrial Revolution.
What are natural resources?
300
The production of large amounts of standardized products
What is mass production?
300
A political philosophy that aims for a classless and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production and an end to private property
What is communism?
400
I discovered a way to make steel quicker
Who is Henry Bessemer?
400
The process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers
What is the Enclosure Movement?
400
Many families lived in a substandard, multi-family dwelling, usually old and occupied by the poor known as these.
What are tenements?
400
_____ encouraged worker-organized strikes to demand increased wages and improved working conditions
What are unions?
400
This act requires food manufacturers to put labels on their products.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
500
This inventory actually ended up making no money off of his invention. Many people were able to copy it quite easily.
Who is Eli Whitney?
500
Farms were this--a term that means everything was able to be done on the farm..Farmers did not have to travel anywhere for goods and services.
What is self-sufficient?
500
This system ran down the middle of the street in the slums of the cities during the Industrial Revolution?
What is the sewer system?
500
Upton Sinclair wrote about this industry and the disgusting conditions that those workers were working in
What is the meatpacking industry?
500
This French term refers to those who lived in the upper class during the Industrial Revolution