Standing on Businesses
This meant that one business controlled an industry and did not have competition.
Monopoly
This was a time period where humans switched from people power to machine power
Industrial Revolution
Invented by Thomas Edison, allowing places to be lit with electricity.
Lightbulb
Why did people move to cities?
To work in factories
This book was written by Charles Dickens, criticizing working/living conditions of factory workers
Hard Times
This is a system that was used to produce goods in a way where one part is assembled at a time.
Assembly Line
Why was the industrialization period a revolution?
Machines are invented to help solve problems
This invention was a refined version of oil that you could use in your home for lanterns
Kerosene
This invention involved the use of canals and steam to work on the water.
Steamboat
This is a literary device used to make fun of/parody a situation, person, or an event.
Satire
What are the four factors of production?
Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship
The Meiji Restoration involved a transfer of power in the government, where the ___________ has more power.
Emperor
Bessemer’s process made steel
Cheaper, lighter, more durable
Railroads allow the transportation of what three things
Goods, resources, people
These two groups were paid lower than men in factory jobs
Women and Children
This economic system means individuals control the means of production
Capitalism
This book promoted the idea that common people should own the means of production
Communist Manifesto
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin had what negative consequence?
Increased demand for slave labor
List two problems with living in cities
Overcrowding, spread of disease, undeveloped infrastructure
This was an artistic reaction of creatives to the industrial revolution
Romanticism
This means little to no government regulation, also known as being "hands off"
Laissez-faire/Free Enterprise
The Meiji Restoration began after this event
America’s use of gunboat diplomacy
This process involved the heating and cooling of beverages to kill harmful bacteria
Pasteurization
This aspect of the Meiji Restoration allowed for the social mobility/education of the peasant class.
Universal Education/Mandatory public schools
Romanticism criticized what element of the industrial revolution?
People become machinelike; use of logic and reason over emotion and feelings