Industrialization (Social)
The place where Industrialization began.
What is Britian?
An economic and political system where private owners, rather than the state, control trade and industry for profit.
What is capitalism
The revolution that occured right before the Industrial Revolution that involved new ideas like crop rotation and seed drill.
What is the agricultural revolution
A newly produced metal that was an alloy of iron and carbon that was the backbone of the industrial society.
What is steel
The movement of people into the country from other countries
What is immigration
The migration of people from rural areas to cities in search for factory work.
What is Urbanization
A system that wanted public ownership and government regulation of major industries to reduce poverty and promote equality
What is socialism
The market that rose as big corporations came to be where people could have partial ownership of companies
What is the stock market
The system created by Eli Whitney for manufacturing firearms that made it easier for the military if a certain part of a machine broke, it could be replaced without making a whole new machine.
What is interchangable parts
What does the French Revolution slogan "liberte, egalite, et fraternite" mean?
Liberty, equality, and fraternity.
Orginizations of workers that fought for the right to bargain with employers to make contracts.
What is labor unions
A series of legislative acts in the UK that expanded voting rights and adjusted representation to make up for the growth of industrial cities.
What is the Reform Acts
A railroad system that went from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
An invention by James Watt that made a cheap way to use coal power to create steam.
What is the steam engine
A document published by Thomas Jefferson expressing the philosophy behind the colonists fight against the British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence
Overcrowded and unsanitary apartment buildings where many poor city dwellers lived.
The policy or philosophy that governments should refrain from interfering in economic affairs, allowing markets to self-regulate.
What is Laissez-faire
A business or corporation so powerful they eliminated all competition.
What is a monopoly\
A spinning frame with multiple spindles invented by James Hargreaves that revolutionized the textile industry
What is the spinning jenny
The period when the government excecuted thousands of opponents of the revolution in France - including the king and queen.
What is the Reign of Terror
A philosophy by John Stuart Mill that favored labor unions and wanted the "greatest good for the greatest number of people."
What is Utilitarianism
The first mass working-class political movement in Britain that tried to transform the political system to empower working people
What is chartism
The culture where overconsumption of goods and services was promoted to keep up with the production of goods
What is consumerism
A communication system that transmitted text messages instantly over long distances using coded electrical pulses sent through wires
What is the electrical telegraph
A movement in the Ottoman Empire to create a more modern and unified state
What is ottomanism