Agriculture
The transformation of agriculture from traditional medieval farming to more productive, efficient, and mechanical methods of farming through scientific innovation and new techniques.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Great Britain had many navigable rivers, which made it easy for mills to use this invention.
What is the water frame? (Water wheel will also be accepted)
This is the process of people moving to cities, the growth of cities and the development of new industries.
What is urbanization?
This reform movement focused on women's right to vote.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
Who came up with the theory of communism?
Who is (are) Karl Marx (and Friedrich Engels)?
The extreme shortage of this crop led to the deaths of over 1 million Irish as well as the migration from Ireland to places in North America.
What is the potato?
Since Great Britain is an island, it had many of these, also known as a safe area of water where people can leave their boats.
What is a harbor?
The working class was generally packed into this area of the cities.
What are slums?
This reform movement fought to have the government set up schools and require basic education for all children.
What is Public Education?
This theory is based on supply and demand, competition, and profit.
What is capitalism?
The legal process of making common land into private land by fencing it in, owned by a farmer that took place in Great Britain.
What is the Enclosure Movement
This rock is combustible, meaning that it burns easily when set on fire. Great Britain has plenty of this natural resource and iron ore.
What is coal?
This event happened in July and August 1858, when hot weather combined with untreated human waste and industrial pollution to turn the Thames River in London into a disgusting body of water.
What is "The Great Stink"?
This is an organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests such as fair wages, working hours, and working conditions.
What is a labor union?
This theory called for businesses to operate free of government regulation (control), meaning that government should have its “hands off” of business.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
Many critics believe that the policies of this government led to food shortages in Ireland.
What is Great Britain?
Great Britain had many of these overseas, or areas under the control of another country or empire, usually far away. This greatly contributed to their wealth and power.
What are colonies?
"White Collar" workers were part of this social class, which included factory owners, accountants, merchants, bankers, lawyers, shopkeepers, and others with moderate incomes.
What is the middle class?
Unionized workers did this, or refused to work until their demands were satisfied.
What is went on strike?
This philosophy held that successful people were more “fit” to succeed than others; in other words, that the rich were superior to the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
A new method of crop rotation used by the Dutch in the Netherlands was introduced in Great Britain. The Dutch discovered that plants called legumes (ie-peas, alfalfa, and beans) and cover crops like turnips, could replenish the field’s nutrients just as well as leaving it fallow.
What is the Four-Crop Rotation System?
James Watt's improvements this machine provided much of the force behind the Industrial Revolution. His invention turned heat from burning coal into movement through a series of valves and gears.
What is the steam engine?
This social group is usually made up of people who earned a living through manual labor and earned a low age.
What is the working class?
This Act forbade nearly all textile mills from employing children under eleven years, and prohibited children between eleven and thirteen from working more than forty-eight hours a week, or nine in a single day.
What is the Factory Act?
A political theory that advocates for a class war between the rich [bourgeoisie] and the poor [proletariat], leading to a classless society where all means of production would be owned by the community.
What is communism?