What is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution?
100
puddling
What is the invention by Henry Cort for the improvement in the quality of iron by using coke to burn away impurities from crude iron?
100
textiles, railroads, coal, and iron
What are the four main products of the first Industrial Revolution?
100
Industrial middle class and industrial working class
What are the names given to the two new social classes that emerged during the Industrial Revolution?
100
Dangerous, dirty, unhealty, dusty, long hours, few breaks
What were the working conditions for factory and mine workers during the Industrial Revolution?
200
Improved agriculture, population growth, ready supply of capital & entrepreneurs, natural resources, supply of markets
What are the five main reasons why the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain?
200
steam engine
What invention was improved by James Watt that was the most important invention of the Industrial Revolution - used to drive machinery in factories and locomotives
200
steel, electricity, petroleum, and chemicals
What are the four main products of the Second Industrial Revolution?
200
women and children
What groups of people made up two-thirds of the cotton industry's workforce by 1833?
200
socialism
What is the name given to the system in which society (government) owns and controls the mean of production (such as factories and utilities)?
300
cottage industry
What is the name given to the type of industry in which people produced goods in their own homes before factories were built?
300
The Rocket
What was the name given to the first steam-powered locomotive to ride on a public railroad in 1830 (between Liverpool and Manchester)?
300
London
What was the first city to reach a population of about 1 million in 1800?
300
Factory Act of 1833
What law in Great Britain set 9 as the minimum age for employment, children between 9 and 13 could work only 9 hours a day, and those between 13 and 18 could work 12 hours a day?
300
Decline in death rates, wars, and diseases, increase in food supply
What were causes of population growth?
400
textile industry
What industry had the following four inventions: flying shuttle, spinning jenny, water-powered loom, steam engine?
400
shift work
What is the name given to the new type of labor system in the factories, in which the factories were kept open day and night and workers did the same work over and over?
400
urbanization
What is the term used for the movement of people from the countryside to the cities during the Industrial Revolution?
400
United States
In what country were thousands of miles of roads and canals built to link the east with the west (later railroads were also built)?
400
Karl Marx
What is the name of the German who criticized the early socialists, and who later wrote "The Communist Manifesto" with Friedrich Engels?
500
cotton cloth (part of textiles)
What was the first major industry of the Industrial Revolution?
500
The Second Industrial Revolution
What is the name given to the later part of the Industrial Revolution, which spread from Great Britain to the continent of Europe and North America?
500
industrial capitalism
What is the name for the economic system based on industrial production?
500
Robert Fulton
What is the name of the American who built the first steam-powered paddle-boat, the Clermont, in 1807?
500
Robert Owen
A "utopian" socialist from Great Britain who belived that humans would show their natural goodness if they lived in a cooperative environment. Built a utopian community in New Lanark, Scotland.