People
He wrote "The Wealth of Nations" and believed in communism and laissez-faire
Who is Adam Smith?
A huge spinning machine running solely on water
What is the Water Frame?
A slow process in which major technological advances were made from about 1750s to 1900s
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is a business owned by stockholders who share the profits?
What is a corporations?
What are canneries?
He invented the cotton gin and introduced the idea of interchangeable parts
Who is Eli Whitney?
This helped weavers to catch up to the thread, now horse horse, water, and steam power were used to operate a loom
What is the Power loom
Money from farmers and trade to invest in new technology and industry?
What is capital?
This is a disease that workers developed from working in factories
What is black-lung disease?
These children sold newpapers on the street
What are newsies?
He is the creator of communism and wrote the "Communist Manifesto" detailing two classes of people
Who is Karl Marx?
This dramatically reduced the time needed to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber
What is the cotton gin?
Taking over and fencing off land from peasant farmers
What are enclosures?
Workers would form these to fight for higher wages, lower hours, and better working conditions
What are labor unions?
What is coal?
He is the inventor of the Model-T car and the assembly line model of work
Who is Henry Ford?
This helped to transport goods and people across the country are speeds that were non-existent before this
What is the steam locomotive?
Multistory buildings that are cramped with tiny apartments
What are tenements?
This country made it illegal for skilled workers and machines to leave
What is Britian?
This outlawed child labor in the 1930s
What is Congress?
He re-invented the steam engine which led to great strides in the invention of the steam engine trains and steamboats
Who is James Watt?
This revolutionized the mining, construction, and military industry
What is dynamite?
What is capitalism?
This man worked to end child labor and created a factory environment where workers were able to balance life and work
Who is John Stuart Mill?
This is the type of mill that produces cloth
What is textile?