Beginnings of Industrialization
The process by which people relocated from rural areas to urban areas.
What is urbanization?
Approximately 50 million pumpkin pies are consumed on Thanksgiving, but America's favorite is still this pie.
What is apple?
This is how people made goods before the Industrial Revolution.
What is by hand?
The growing number of these in England, made it even better for industrialization as factories required many.
What are laborers? Or workers?
These were row houses which were often overcrowded with multiple families living in a single unit.
What are tenements?
Since 1924, this department store has put on a Thanksgiving parade.
What is Macy's?
These acts changed farming and pushed small farmers and peasants into cities.
What are enclosure acts?
This famine in Ireland brought more workers to English cities to work on the railroads.
What is the potato famine?
Invented the telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
Thanksgiving is always celebrated on this Thursday.
What is the 4th Thursday of the month?
New diseases from the ash in the air, affected a person's ability to breathe.
What is black lung? Or white lung?
Just like they invested in the North American colonies, these companies also invested in factories in England.
What are joint stock companies?
The first thanksgiving lasted this many days.
What is three days?
The 3 natural resources England possessed.
What is coal, iron ore and rivers?
The amount of hours that people worked in factories and how many days
What is 12 hour days, 6 days a week?
The wealthy and middle class did not live in the cities, they lived here instead.
What is the suburbs?
This founding father did not support the celebrating of Thanksgiving, citing his desire to separate church and state.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?