Life Before Industry
Factors of Production
Industrialization Begins
Inventions that Changed Industry
Potpourri
100

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Great Britain/England

100
Define Capital.
Money used for investing
100
What was the first industry to be transformed by the Industrial Revolution?
Cotton cloth (Textiles)
100

Jethro Tull invented this planting machine. 

Seed Drill

100

What policy meant that business and industry would be as free as possible from government regulation? 

Laissez-Faire

200
What did most people do for a living before the Industrial Revolution?
They were farmers
200
Define Entrepreneur
A person willing to risk his money to make a profit
200
Why were the first factories built near rivers?
They used water power to run the machines.
200
This invention, by James Watt, revolutionizing factories and transportation
The Steam Engine
200

This machine, invented by James Hargreaves, allowed one machine to do the work of several spinners.

Spinning Jenny

300

What is the definition of Industrialization?

Industrialization is a period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive reorganisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.

300
What important natural resources did Great Britain have in abundance before the Industrial Revolution?
Iron, coal, rivers
300

Name two inventions that helped transform the textile industry

Flying Shuttle, Spinning Jenny

300

Alexander Graham Bell invented __________, and Samuel B. Morse invented its predecessor, the ____________.

Telephone, telegraph

300

the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.

Urbanization

400
What was the average life expectancy, in years, for people before the Industrial Revolution
About 40 years.
400
What event in English History forced large numbers of farmers off their land and provided the large labor force needed for their Industrial Revolution?
The Enclosure Movement
400

Why did the factories hire children? 

They could be paid less than adults, and taken advantage of

400

In 1750, Abraham Darby invented a process to make higher quality _________.

Cast iron

400

Name "Turnip" Townshend's innovative discovery and describe how it worked.

Crop rotation.

He found that by growing four crops— turnips, barley, grasses, and wheat— in rotation resulted in four times as much crop yield. Land no longer needed to be kept fallow (empty) to recover its nutrients, because the new crops of turnips and clover released nitrogen into the soil.

500

A system where skilled craftsmen and artisans crafted goods within their homes, utilizing their own equipment and resources

Cottage Industry

500

Demand is the amount of the good or service that customers want to buy. Name and describe the other half of this "law." 

Supply: the amount of a specific good or service that's available in the market.

500
Describe working conditions in early factories.
Dirty and dangerous
500

Who were the first people to fly an airplane?

The Wright Brothers

500

What was one of the diseases that spread throughout London? What are 2 reasons why disease was rampant at this time? 

Cholera, typhoid. 

Overpopulation, poor hygiene, contaminated water, cramped housing, pollution

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