Key terms
This term describes the shift from handmade goods to machine made goods
What is industrialization?
This British act allowed landowners to fence off common land, contributing to urban migration.
What is the Enclosure Act?
He improved the steam engine, making it more efficient during the 1st Industrial Revolution.
Who is James Watt?
This revolution began in Britain in the late 1700s and spread to other countries.
What is the First Industrial Revolution?
This country was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
This term refers to an economic system based on private ownership and free markets
What is capitalism?
This U.S. law passed in 1890 was the first federal action to limit monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This German philosopher co-authored “The Communist Manifesto.”
Who is Karl Marx?
This later wave of industrial growth, beginning in the late 1800s, focused on steel, chemicals, and electricity.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
This natural resource was needed for powering steam engines and was heavily mined during industrialization.
What is coal?
This system replaced the domestic system and brought workers and machines under one roof.
What is the factory system?
This policy had the government stay out of economic affairs mainly during the early industrial period.
What is laissez-faire?
He invented the cotton gin, revolutionizing the cotton industry.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This form of transportation, greatly expanded during industrialization, revolutionized travel and trade.
What is the railroad?
This invention by Samuel Morse created long distance communication.
What is the telegraph?
This term refers to the idea that government should not interfere in the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
These regulations emerged in the late 1800s to improve labor conditions and limit working hours for women and children.
What are labor reform laws?
This American industrialist used the assembly line to mass-produce automobiles.
Who is Henry Ford?
This tragic 1911 fire in a New York garment factory highlighted terribkle working conditions for women.
What is the Triangle Shrtwaist Factory Fire?
(NYU)
This system introduced by Frederick Taylor analyzed workflows to make industrial productivity stornger.
What is scientific management?
This economic theory developed by Karl Marx argued for a classless society and the abolition of private property.
What is communism?
This British law restricted the working hours and conditions for children in factories in 1833.
What is the Factory Act of 1833?
This British economist routed for laissez faire and wrote “The Wealth of Nations.”
Who is Adam Smith?
This 1811, 1816 movement involved English workers who destroyed machnery that threatened their jobs.
What is the Luddite movement?
This theory argues that industrial societies are marked by growing inequality between capitalists and workers.
What is Marxist theory of class struggle?