Innovations
Reforms
Economic Systems
Living Conditions
Miscellaneous
100

This invention took out the seeds from the cotton fiber.

Cotton gin

100

In addition to unfair working conditions, the labor union protested this.

Child labor

100

This person is known as the Father of Capitalism.

Adam Smith

100

When a population shifts from rural life to urban life it is called this.

Urbanization 

100

This was the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines.

The Industrial Revolution

200

Factories were powered by this during the Industrial Revolution.

Coal

200

This established a system of secondary schools in Britain. 

The 1902 Education Act

200

This person along with Frederick Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto.

Karl Marx

200

This person reigned over Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. 

Queen Victoria

200

The Industrial Revolution began in this country. 

Great Britain 

300

This invention turned heat from burning coal into movement through a series of valves and gears.

Steam engine

300

This event led to the adoption of fire safety measures that served as a model for all of the United States.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

300

This economic system comes from a theory that aimed to abolish the class system and spread wealth equality.  

Communism

300

This was a negative effect of coal-powered factories.

Pollution 

300

This country replaced Britain as the leading industrial nation in the 20th century.

The United States of America

400

This is a process of making goods that is based on machinery and division of labor.

Factory system

400

This reform movement began because women wanted to vote for favorable politicians. 

Women's Suffrage 

400

This is an economic system in which a society's means of production are held by private individuals or organizations--not the government. 

Capitalism

400

This person wrote novels exposing terrible working conditions during the Industrial Revolution.

Charles Dickens 

400

This was an increase in agricultural production in Britain due to increase in labor and land production. 

The Agricultural Revolution

500

This is an old-fashioned method of sending messages in code over a long distance using electrical waves.

Telegraph

500

The goal of this reform movement was to teach children discipline, patriotism, and work habits.

Public Education

500

In this economic system transactions between private parties are free from any form of government intervention. 

Laissez faire

500

This is the name of a disease caused by unsanitary conditions. 

Cholera 

500

This country suffered a massive population decrease due to a potato blight. 

Ireland

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