Agricultural Revolution
This revolution increased food production before factories became common.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
This country is known as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Britain?
This invention by James Hargreaves allowed one worker to spin multiple threads at once.
What is the spinning jenny?
This refers to the movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
The resources needed for a country to industrialize.
What are the factors of production?
This invention planted seeds in neat rows at proper depths.
What is the seed drill?
The system where families made goods in their homes before factories.
What is the cottage system (or domestic system)?
This machine used hydropower to spin strong thread and helped to develop the factory system.
What is the water frame?
This type of payment attracted rural workers to cities.
What is cash wages?
A person who sets up a business, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.
What is an entrepreneur?
The buying up and fencing off of village farmland by wealthy landowners.
What is the Enclosure Movement?
This factor of production came as a direct result of the Agricultural Revolution.
What is labor?
This invention allowed factories to run anywhere, not just near rivers.
What is the steam engine?
These crowded apartment buildings housed many working‑class families.
What are tenements?
To be able to do something faster, easier, and better.
What is efficiency?
This farming method required you to understand the nutrient requirement of different crops in order to help keep soil fertile.
What is crop rotation?
The industry that industrialized first due to high demand for clothing.
What is the textile industry?
This production method used by Henry Ford was based on moving products past workers on a conveyor belt.
What is the assembly line?
These toilets were located in a small shed outside and were often shared between 10 or more houses.
What is a privy?
A legal document that gives an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell an invention for a set amount of time.
What is a patent?
This method was a process used to develop bigger livestock by pairing those with the most desirable characteristics for mating.
What is selective breeding?
This factor of production included investors, business friendly banks & government that protected private property.
What is capital?
This American invention strengthened the link between British factories and global trade.
What is the cotton gin?
This government law required towns to improve sewers and clean water access.
What is the Public Health Act of 1875?
A bacterial disease that mainly attacks the lungs and spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or breathes.
What is Tuberculosis