Terms
Textiles
Steam
Social Impact
Places
100
Describes roads, highways, sea ports and communications networks necessary for economic growth.
What is infrastructure?
100
John Kay's early innovation for making textiles.
What was the flying shuttle?
100
He invented the first successful steam engine.
Who was James Watt?
100
He offered this theory about population growth reaching a crisis point if a nation exceeded its carrying capacity.
Who was Thomas Malthus?
100
Robert Owen's failed utopian experiment in the United States.
Where was New Harmony, IN?
200
Large business organization owned by stockholders.
What is a corporation?
200
Inventor of the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
200
Fulton's steamboat that revolutionized oceanic travel.
What was the Clermont?
200
The process of people moving into cities and larger towns from the rural area.
What is urbanization?
200
The first industrialized nation in Europe.
Where was Great Britain?
300
Term for money that is necessary for investments in starting any business.
What is capital?
300
James Hargreaves innovation using multiple spools of thread in textiles.
What was the spinning jenny?
300
George Stephenson's steam powered locomotive named after a Prussian general.
What was the Blucher?
300
Frequent disease in urban areas caused from drinking contaminated water.
What was cholera?
300
Overseas territories that provided Britain the necessary resources for industrialization.
Where were the colonies?
400
Involves the use of machinery to make goods on a large scale.
What is industrialization?
400
Cartwright's innovation once powered by water.
What was the power loom?
400
Because of the steam powered locomotive and steamship people could travel farther and faster in a shorter amount of time.
What is time-space compression?
400
French name for the wealthier class of people created by industrial capitalism.
Who were the bourgeoisie?
400
Import seaport that linked to Manchester by rail.
Where was Liverpool?
500
These early industries originally made most textiles at home.
What were cottage industries?
500
Richard Arkwright developed this system of mass production in the textile industry involving regimentation and fixed schedules.
What was the Factory System?
500
Richard Trevithick's name due to his contributions to developing railways in Britain.
Who was the "Father of Railway System"?
500
The factory workers and small farmers that felt exploited by the wealthy.
Who were the working class?
500
The movement occurred in Britain during the 1700s turning common land into private property.
What was the Enclosure Movt.?