Terms
a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system or a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people's ideas about it.
Revolution
This estate paid for 97% of all French taxes.
The third estate
A way of putting together a product in a factory. The product moves along a line of people, and each person adds a part until the product is finished.
Assembly Line
This allowed factories to stay open longer and produce more goods.
Electric lights
Two reasons children were hired to work in factories.
To fit into small places and in between machines
and they worked for little pay.
A monarch
A King or Queen
King Louis XVI raised taxes because France was in great...
Debt
One large drawback for the people working in the Factory System.
Working Conditions
A machine that spun cotton into material.
A Spinning Jenny (or Mule).
Two types of jobs children did in the industrial revolution.
Working on machines in factories, selling newspapers on street corners, breaking up coal at the coal mines, and as chimney sweeps.
A widespread scarcity of food
A famine
The devise that the French used to kill prisoners.
The Guillotine
Interchangeable parts where individual parts could easily be replaced and repaired.
Standardized parts
He invented the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
How much education did most working children get?
Little to no education.
A slogan from this revolution was "no taxation without representation".
American Revolution
This caused the people of France to be careful of everything they said, what they did, and who they talked to. The slightest hint of opposition to the revolutionary government could mean prison or even death.
The Reign of Terror
A terrible tragedy that happened in New York City, because of bad working conditions
Triangle Shirtwaste Factory Fire
Where it could take months to travel across the United States, now it took days because of the invention of this.
The railroad
Many children working in coal mines worked from
______ a.m. to _______ p.m.
4 am until 5 pm.
A piece of cloth or woven fabric
Textile
The French Revolution brought new ideas to Europe including liberty and freedom for the commoner as well as what two other things?
The abolishment of slavery and the rights of women.
Employees in the factories that were taught one simple task that they would repeat over and over.
Unskilled workers
A Macadam Road
broken stone of even size used in successively compacted layers for surfacing roads and paths, and typically bound with tar.
. In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed. What two things did it do to help children?
It set a minimum wage, and put limits on how many hours an employee should work.