Factories
People left these to find work in factories that were springing up near cities.
What are farms?
Many left their countries and came into major cities and lived in cramped, dirty apartments, and worked in factories.
Who are immigrants?
This was the immediate cause of the war?
This enabled people to work into the night, and powered factories.
What is electricity?
Where one person works on just one part of a larger machine, and then another person does the next part.
What is an assembly line?
This spread very quickly due to lack of hygiene and the cramped living conditions in cities.
What is disease?
This group was responsible for the assassination of the Archduke.
What is the Black Hand?
When stronger countries take over smaller, weaker countries.
What is imperialism?
This could fire hundreds of bullets at once, replacing the single fire rifle.
What is a machine/gatling gun?
They were more likely to be employed in factories that made cloth and clothes.
Who are women?
Children worked 12-16 hour day doing dangerous jobs. This lead to the passage of these kinds of laws.
What are child labor laws?
The war was mainly fought in these, creating difficult living conditions for soldiers.
What are trenches?
Building up of a countries military personal and weaponry.
What is militarism?
These were first used in WWI for observation, but later carried bombs and gunners.
What are airplanes?
This became a huge problem in major cities because of all of the smoke and chemicals being released into the air and water during the Industrial Revolution.
What is pollution?
These were cramped, dark apartment buildings that house thousands of immigrants and working people who had come to cities to find work.
What are tenements?
The year the U.S. entered the war.
What is 1917?
A group of workers who work to better the conditions and experience of employees in a given place or trade.
What is a union?
This vehicle used tracks instead of wheels and was heavily armed and armored.
What is a tank?
Factories employed them to fit into small spaces, and because they could be paid little to no money.
Who are children?
The Industrial Age was also called this because they very rich made this time look like everything was wonderful, but underneath most people were struggling to survive.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This was the type of war fought during World War I.
Chlorine gas, or mustard gas, was used as the first type of this in WWI.
What is chemical warfare?