Industrial Beginnings
This natural resource powered early steam engines and made Britain the first industrial nation.
What is coal
The new social class made up of factory workers earning wages.
What is proletariat
Industrial nations often used this policy of dominating economies without full political control.
What is economic imperialism?
This philosopher argued capitalism exploited workers and called for communism.
Who is Karl Marx?
One social effect of industrialization.
Example: urban working class growth, class conflict, labor unions.
This invention improved the efficiency of textile production and symbolizes early mechanization in Britain.
What is the spinning jenny? (Accept: water frame, power loom)
The movement that increased food production and pushed rural workers into cities.
What is Agriculture Revolution
The factory system increased this workplace feature, where each worker performs one small task.
What is labor specialization
India’s textile industry declined because of competition from this country’s machine-made goods.
What is Great Britain?
his reformer supported shorter hours and better living conditions rather than ending capitalism.
Who is Robert Owen?
One reason Britain industrialized first.
coal, capital, agriculture, empire, etc.
This transportation innovation allowed goods and people to move faster across land during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the railroad? (Accept: steam locomotive)
The major difference between the First and Second Industrial Revolutions was the shift to these new energy sources.
What is electricity and oil
Poor working conditions inspired the creation of these worker organizations.
What are labor unions
Industrial investment overseas increased global trade and this broader historical process.
What is global economic integration?
he Haitian Revolution was strongly influenced by this earlier European revolution.
What is the French Revolution?
One response to capitalism
labor reform, socialism, Marxism, unions, etc.
Industrial factories increasingly relied on this nonrenewable energy source that replaced water and wind power.
What are fossil fuels? (Accept: coal)
This economic system encourages private ownership, investment, and profit.
What is capitalism
Industrial cities grew rapidly because people moved from rural farms to urban areas in this process.
What is urbanization
Slavery in the United States and serfdom in Russia were both abolished during this decade.
What are the 1860s?
Japan rapidly industrialized after this political transformation in 1868.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
One global effect of industrialization outside Europe.
Imperialism, decline of Indian textiles, forced trade, etc.
This new production method of the late 1800s allowed goods to be produced quickly and cheaply in large quantities.
What is mass production? (Accept: assembly line)
Industrialization began in Britain partly because it had this advantage of overseas territory supplying raw materials and markets.
What is colonial empire
This social class owned factories, banks, and industrial capital.
What is the bourgeoisie
European global dominance in the 1800s was primarily due to this major transformation.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Both the American and French Revolutions challenged this traditional form of government.
What is monarchy?
One similarity in how societies handled class tensions.
reforms, laws, unionization, state intervention, etc.
Industrial technology helped European nations expand global influence by strengthening this form of overseas control.
What is imperialism?