Innovations
This new method prevented the soil from wearing out by planting different crops every other year.
Crop rotation
A method where the workers are standing by a conveyor belt.
Assembly line
Why there were so many workers looking for jobs.
Agricultural Revolution
A group of workers that were hired because they were very cheap and there were many of them.
Children
The fencing off of public lands to create larger lands to farm.
Enclosure movement
Gottlieb Daimler used an internal combustion engine to build one of the first...
automobile
The people moving towards cities were working in
Factories
The amount of hours an average worker worked.
12-16 hours
An invention that revolutionized textile industry by making it possible to spin several threads at once.
Spinning Jenny
This European country came to rival Britain and the USA as the leading industrial power after 1870.
Germany
This Vocab term means moving to cities
Urbanization
The name of the act which limited the working day for children. 8 hours a day for 9-13 year olds and 12 hours a day for 14-18 year olds.
The Factory act
An invention that improved agriculture by planting seeds in straight rows.
Seed drill
In order to deliver the increased amount of goods improved transportation was needed. 1759 was the start of extensive...
Canal building
The growing cities caused the following problems (2/3).
Bad sanitation, poor housing and diseases spread rapidly.
Organizations that helped workers to gain better working conditions.
Labour Unions
Invented by Samuel F.B. Morse
The telegraph
George Stephenson created the Rocket which was...
The first steam-powered locomotive
The Doctor whose investigation showed Cholera was a water borne illness.
This social class came to challenge the wealthy aristocracy during the 1800's
The middle class