Beginnings
New Inventions
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Unions
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100
The Industrial Revolution began in the 1700s in this country.
What is Great Britain?
100
This new form of transportation helped make the Industrial Revolution possible.
What are steam-powered trains (or railroads)?
100
These factories were known for their often dim lights and lack of work breaks.
What are sweatshops?
100
This is when one person or company has total control of a market or industry.
What is a monopoly?
100
Another way for businesses to get capital was by issuing these, a part ownership in a company.
What are stocks?
200
The four factors that allowed Great Britain to have an industrial revolution were wealth, a banking system, raw materials, and this.
What is a surplus population (more people than were needed to work on the farms)?
200
The increase in the textile industry had a terrible side effect of also increasing this.
What is slavery?
200
These people comprised the majority of workers in sweatshops.
Who are immigrants, women, and/or children?
200
This is a group of workers who agree to work together to defend their rights at work.
What is a union?
200
America's first billionaire.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
After this main event the Industrial Revolution started in America.
What is the Civil War?
300
This process of having each person along a line be responsible for performing one specific part of a job.
What is an assembly line?
300
Immigrants were willing to work in sweatshops because they needed this.
What is food or money?
300
It is (true/false) unions allowed workers to attain their rights without needing to resort to violence.
What is false?
300
This car company is part of the legacy of this multimillionaire who lived during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is Henry Ford?
400
Before the Industrial Revolution the majority of roads were made from this.
What is dirt?
400
This famous mechanical invention was part of what made Henry Ford famous.
What is the Model T?
400
It is (true/false) that Americans felt that these poor conditions would get better.
What is false?
400
The Immigration Act of 1924 helped to give unions a big boost by doing this.
What is limiting the number of job seekers (by limiting the number of people who enter the United States each year)?
400
Almost this percentage of factory workers were between the ages of seven and sixteen in 1832.
What is half or 50%?
500
American industry grew due to the increased use of this.
What is steel?
500
This increase in the use of this invention made assembly lines possible
What are conveyor belts?
500
If you were alive during the Industrial Revolution it is likely that you would be required to do this.
What is work?
500
Unions were able to get this many hour workdays standard by 1950.
What is a 10-hour workday?
500
This photographer helped to change child labor laws with his photographs of factories.
Who is Lewis Hine?
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