Agrarian Life
Wealthy landowners enclosed their lands with ___ to start the enclosure movement.
What are fences?
New machines were powered by ___ and ___.
What are water and coal?
The reaper boosted American wheat production and was invented by ____.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
These ___ organized to demand higher wages, shorter hours and better working conditions.
What are labor unions?
This country joined the Industrial Revolution later but has one of the most competitive economies in the world now.
What is China?
When farmers lost their land in the enclosure they went to work in ___.
What are factories?
What are trains?
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?
Industrialization produced ___ that raised the quality of life and paid for infrastructure improvements.
What are taxes?
Along with most of Europe, The Industrial Revolution spread to these three countries first.
What are the Russia, United States and Japan.
The textile industry relied on ___ from the American South.
What is cotton?
This steamboat called the Clermont made its first successful trip in 1807 on this river.
What is the Hudson River?
Ring, ring! Alexander Graham Bell invented this revolutionary machine for communication.
What is the telephone?
This photographer captured the lives of child workers and bring attention to their plight.
Who is Lewis Hine?
What is Manchester?
Eli Whitney invented the machine called the ___ to help with the textile industry.
What is the cotton gin?
Railroads helped these two industries bloom in England: __ and ___.
What are the agricultural and fishing industries.
What is the sewing machine?
These production buildings are found all over New England because of their booming textile industry.
What are mills?
Capitalism is driven by this term of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions.
What is Laissez-faire economics?
The process of people moving to cities helped create this phenomenon ____.
What is urbanization?
The group called the ___ attacked factories around 1779.
Who are the Luddites?
This process mass produces steel.
What is the Beamer process?
Workers lived in ___ so that they could be close to the factory during the Industrial Revolution.
What are boarding houses?
Industrial Revolution also sowed the seeds for this process where one country rules over another.
What is imperialism?