European nation where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Great Britain?
100
Secret socialist group who attempted to stop industrialization by destroying factories and the machines.
Who are Luddites?
100
Perfected the steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
100
Worked to introduce and promote sanitary measures in hospitals... "The first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm"
Who is Florence Nightingale?
100
Coauthored the pamphlet "The Communist Manifesto".
Who is Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels?
200
Housing built in rapidly growing factory towns to accommodate the mass migration of workers.
What is a tenement?
200
The idea that creativity and capital could bring wealth.
What is "Rags to Riches"?
200
The first factories developed in this industry.
What is the textile industry?
200
Idea originally rejected by scientists which found certain microbes caused specific infectious diseases.
What is Germ Theory?
200
Under this political system the people (government) own & control the means of production.
What is Socialism?
300
Early 1800's sees the creation of unions to help workers gain the "Big Three" (name them).
What is better working conditions, better hours and better pay.
300
Laws passed to reduce children's working hours to, no more than, 12 hours a day and removed children under the age of 8 from cotton mills.
What is Factory Acts?
300
Developed a method for making cheaper/stronger steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
300
A drug that prevents pain during surgery.
What is Anesthetic?
300
Economist who discouraged vaccinations because he believed disease was a natural population control.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
400
A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process.
What is an assembly line?
400
Public education reformer who believed ALL children should attend school and to improve the quality of education teachers should be trained.
Who is Horace Mann?
400
Invented dynamite and used wealth to fund a famous prize.
Who is Alford Nobel?
400
A process for killing disease carrying microbes in milk.
What is pasteurization?
400
Developed a controversial idea that all living things, including humans, evolved over millions of years and that all species competed to survive..."natural selection"
Who is Charles Darwin?
500
A method of producing goods in individual homes.
What is the putting-out system
500
Reform movement which advocated limiting or banning the use of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance Movement?
500
These parts made Henry Fords modern assembly line possible.
What is interchangeable parts?
500
Developed an antiseptic which cleans Dr.'s surgical tools and drastically reduced hospital acquired infections & deaths.
Who is Joseph Lister?
500
Concept that government actions are useful only if they promote "the greatest good for the greatest number of people".