Industrial Revolution

Vocab 1

100

Large buildings in which machines are used to create goods

What is Factory?

200

To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands

What is strike?

300

Refers to a person’s decision to freely relocate from one place and settle in another.  

What is Voluntary migration?

400

Things that make people want to leave (or force them to leave) their original area.

What is Push Factor?

500

The use of children as workers in factories and mines

What is Child Labor?

Vocab 2

100

Right to vote

What is Suffrage?

200

Movement in which an element of coercion exists, such as movement of people due to political conflict, natural disaster or environmental hazard.  Examples of forced migration can be refugees fleeing homelands, native peoples displaced from tribal lands, forced enslavement of groups for economic gain, people displaced by famine or due to natural, environmental, chemical or nuclear disasters.

What is Forced Migration?

300

Bring people to a new area.

What is Pull Factor?

400

An association of workers formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages

What is Labor Unions?

500

Refers to the study of the statistical change over time  

 of the population of people living in a place.

What is Demographic Shift?

Agricultural Revolution

100

The unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain

What is Agricultural Revolution?

200

Controllable food supply, grow food surplus, can be practiced  all over the world.

What are the advantages of agriculture (farming)?

300

Changing environment of the planet, farming is hard

What are the disadvantages of agriculture (farming)?

400

1. humans have changed it via building dams 

2. clearing forests

3. drilling for oil

What are some ways in which humans have had an impactful change on the environment?

500

1. Population

2. Leisure

3. Fertility rite

4. Alcohol

What are some theories for the occurrence of the agricultural revolution?

Inventors & Their Inventions

100

Flying Shuttle

John Kay

200

Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney

300

Edmund Cartwright

Power Loom

400

Spinning Jenny

James Hargreaves

500

Richard Arkwright

Water Frame

Inventions

100

Spun 8-10 threads at a time; used at home

Spinning Jenny

200

Improved quality of animals to produce more meat, milk, and wool

Stock Breeding

300

Made grain harvesting easier 

Mechanical Reaper

400

Separated seed from raw cotton

Cotton Gin

500

Horse-drawn seed drill

Planted seeds in straight rows