Industrialization Basics
What is Industrialization?
The process of developing machine production of goods
A large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goodsWhat is a factory?
What is a factory?
What is urbanization?
The growth of cities and the migration of people to them
What is capitalism?
economic system in which money (capital) is invested in business ventures with the goal of making a profit
What does the term laissez faire refer to?
The idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries or businesses
Where did industrialization begin?
England/Britain
Safely prevented people from catching the deadly disease of smallpox
extra 100 if you name the inventor
What was the Smallpox Vaccine?
Inventor: Edward Jenner
a movement that called for writers and artists to picture daily ife in the most precise and exact manner possible
Realism
What is a group of people who come together to formally negotiate conditions of the work place
A Union
a federal agency founded in 1916 that provided comprehensive oversight of the growing number of federally protected lands.
National park Service
What machine separate the seed from a cotton plant?
The Cotton gin
Could produce _________ that was strong and cheap which could be used to make skyscrapers and bridgesWhat was the steel process?
extra 100 points if you can name the inventor
What was the steel process?
Inventor: Henry Bessemer
the ideology that women should enter the public sphere not only to work on the behalf of others, but also for their own equal rights
Feminism
What is socialism?
System in which the people as a whole rather than private individuals own all property & operate all businesses for the benefit of all members, rather than just for the wealthy
Identical parts that can be put together to make a product
Interchangeable parts
What is an assembly line?
an arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in its manufacture
Changed the way factories could produce goods faster
the assembly line
A powerful political organization of militant protestants, which for a brief period in the 1890's counted more than 2 million members. In its virulant anti-catholicism and calls for restrictions on immigrants it prefigured the KKK
American Protective Association
an emerging "science" of human breeding in the late 19th century that argued that mentally dificient people should be prevented from reproducing
eugenics
What were the factors of production?
Resources needed to produce goods and services that the Industrial Rev. required (land, labor, and wealth)
Name FOUR major improvements in transportation that spurred the Industrial Revolution?
Steam engine
steam boats
canals
improved roads
railroads
Who invented the phone?
for an extra 100, what was it an improvement over
Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell
His invention allowed for improved communication over a telegraph
a term adopted by protestants between the 1890's and 1910's, who rejected modernism and historical interpretations of scripture and asserted the literal truth of the Bible
fundamentalism
What is Social Darwinism?
apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics
an organiztion founded in 1892 dedicated to preserving and enjoying America's great mountains and wilderness environments
Sierra Club