Industry
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People
Industrial Life
Industrial Jobs
100
The good that the majority of the factories in Britain were producing.
What are textiles?
100

The belief that factory owners had a responsibility to care for their workers like parents care for their children.

What is paternalism?

100

A person who funds, manages, organizes, and takes on the risk of a business.

What is an Entrepreneur or a Capitalist?

100

Steam-powered locomotives carried goods and people much faster, further, and cheaper across this innovative method of transportation.

What is a railroad?

100

Young children worked in this job which required they make hundreds of finished ___ an hour while working around a large furnace. 

What are nails/nailers?

200
Large buildings in which machinery is used to manufacture goods.
What are Factories?
200
The growth of cities and the migration of people into them.
What is urbanization?
200
An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages.
What is a Union?
200

A man-made water way that is used for transporting goods and people.

What is a canal?

200

This job was dark, dangerous, and had many hazards. Workers tunneled into the earth to seek a flammable material that powered the industrial revolution.

What is coal mining?
300
The natural resource that was used to power the steam engine.
What is coal?
300

To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands.

What is a strike?

300
This wealthy couple were the owners of Quarry Bank Mill. 

Who are Samuel and Hannah Greg?

300
Under this system, children were given housing, food, and sometimes schooling in exchange for full-time work in factories. 

What is the apprentice system?

300

These workers maintained and operated complex spinning machines to create thread and fabric that would be made into clothing.

What is a mill worker? Textile worker?

400

This refers to a system of production before the factory system when people made products at home and in small workshops.

What is a cottage industry?

400
The development of industries for the machine production of goods.
What is Industrialization?
400

This man is credited with inventing the water frame, which allowed for much more efficient textile production using water- powered spinning machines. 

Who is Richard Arkwright?

400

An economic system in which the means of production (all land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses) would be owned by the people. All goods and services would be shared equally.

What is Communism?

400

These people were wealthier than the factory workers and were in charge of running the operations of the factory, but they weren't quite as wealthy as the owners.

What is a factory manager?

500

The typical work week for a factory worker was...

6 days a week/12 hour days

500
An economic system in which money is invested in business ventures with the goal of making a profit.
What is Capitalism?
500

This man is credited with improving the steam engine, which was powered by steam from water heated by burning coal. 

Who is James Watt?

500
This Act of the British Parliament led to the loss of many small farms when common lands were enclosed and sold. 

What is the Enclosure Acts?

500

These people wrote and gave speeches on challenges faced by workers and helped them to organize into unions and advocate for their rights by bargaining with their employers.

What is a labor rights activist?

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