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Revolution's Beginning
City Life
Factory Life
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
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100
Before the American Industrial Revolution, most people worked as____________.
What are farmers?
100
City streets during the IR had no ___________ to carry away water and garbage.
What are drains/drainage systems?
100
Other than men, what other individuals were workers during this time period?
Who are women and children?
100

Which machine made separating seeds from cotton easy?

What is a cotton gin?

100

Give inventors legal rights to their inventions so only they could profit from it for a certain time.

What is a patent?

200
The American Industrial Revolution occurred primarily in this century: _______________.
What is the 19th century?
200
Most people lived in what kinds of buildings?
What are apartment buildings?
200
Describe the rights given to factory workers during the IR.
There really weren't any during the beginning of the IR. Women and children had to work long hours for little pay.
200

Which invention changed how goods and people were transported across long distances?

Hint: This invention used steam to power boats and trains.

What are steam engines?

200

The Industrial Revolution began in the ______ industry?

What is the Textile Industry?

300
During the Industrial Revolution, most people are moving from rural areas to what kind of areas?
What are urban (city) areas?
300
Problems people faced in their living conditions when they lived in cities during the IR?
What is disease, overcrowding, limited education, no police protection.
300
What were working conditions like in the factories?
Incredibly dirty and dangerous. People often got sick and injured.
300

Identical parts that could be put together quickly to make a complete product.

What are interchangeable parts?

300

Free Enterprise

What is Capitalism?

400
The term used to describe the period when new inventions were created to, in some cases, improve people's lives.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
Cities began to face this more and more as people rapidly moved into cities and could not find places to live?
What is overcrowding?
400
At what age could children begin working?
What is age 6?
400

Who was the creator of the cotton gin?

Who is Eli Whitney?

400

Factories had control of the buildings, land, machines, money, etc...

What is a Capital?

500
The Industrial Revolution first began in this country: _______________.
What is England?
500
The process by which people relocated from rural areas to urban areas is known as _______________.
What is urbanization?
500
How many hours in a work week could workers expect to work during the IR?
What are up to 72 hours?
500

This invention used electrical pulses to communicate messages over long distances quickly and cheaply.

What is a telegraph?

500

A system that allows businesses to operate with little government interference?

What is free enterprise?