Vocabulary
Type of society based on agriculture
Agrarian
An artistic movement that used Ancient Greek and Roman art to guide new art
Classicism
People who design and build new machines
Inventors
Factory owners would use these people to attack striking factory workers
The Police
The change from making goods by hand to making them by machine
The Industrial Revolution
Something valuable found in nature such as minerals, forests, or water
Natural Resources
Popular music that is played by common people
Folk Music
This inventor made improvements to steam engines
James Watt
An economic system in which the society owns things like factories and railroads and share the wealth together so no one is too rich or too poor
Socialism
To lose a job because a machine can do the work faster or better
Put out of work
Artists who write music
Composers
A movement in art that focused on feelings and nature
Romanticism
This invention made weaving faster
The Power Loom
To refuse to work until pay is raised or conditions are improved
Go on strike
Britain was a perfect place for the Industrial Revolution to begin because it had large supplies of these two resources
Coal and Iron
Another name for cloth material
Textiles
This famous composer used both classical and Romantic elements in his music
Ludwig Van Beethoven
This inventor developed a way to make steel out of iron
Henry Bessemer
People who invest money in new factories or businesses
Capitalists
A labor riot occurred here in Chicago in 1886
Haymarket Square
The buildings where things are made by machines
Factories
This writer encouraged people to “adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This invention helped make steel even stronger
The Open-hearth Furnace
The political ideology that workers need to revolt and take over factories and government
Marxism
This German journalist suggested that workers should take over factories and the government
Karl Marx