Industrial Revolution

Vocabulary

100

This is a resource that is provided by nature

Natural Resource

200

This is another term for money or other financial resources

Capital

300

This is the movement of people into cities

Urbanization

400

Land, Labor, and Capital are collecting known as this

Factors of Production

500

This is the economic system in which everything is controlled privately and competition and profit are the most important things

Capitalism

Big Business

100

Many people organized and began their own businesses and became known as this

Entrepreneurs

200

Since workers were treated unfairly, they formed these to try to improve their working conditions

Labor Union

300

If the government takes a hands off approach towards businesses it is known as this

Laissez Faire

400

This has formed when a company takes nearly complete control over an industry with very little competition

Monopoly

500

This economic system became popular among the working class because it was the opposite ideology to Capitalism

Socialism

Advancements/Inventions

100

Working in a step by step method to mass produce cars was perfected by this man

Henry Ford

200

Henry Bessemer developed a process to produce this material much faster and cheaper

Steel

300

The telegraph, along with the code needed to understand it, was invented by this man

Samuel Morse

400

James Watt invented this tool to help power boats and trains for transportation

Steam Engine

500

This method of farming involved switching to a different crop each season

Crop Rotation

Changes in Work

100

The domestic system was a style of work that was done primarily in this location

Home

200

Factory workers did this job along this in order to mass produce their products

Assembly Line

300

These two groups of people were often hired because they were cheaper labor

Women and Children

400

This was the increased production in farming production due to new technologies and methods

Agricultural Revolution

500

List two differences between Domestic and Factory System

Many answers are acceptable

Random

100

This was the country where the Industrial Revolution first began

Great Britain

200

Skilled workers, professionals, and business owners were part of this during the Industrial Revolution

Middle Class

300

While assembly lines did help with mass production, it also had these negative consequences as well

-Workers became replaceable
-Workers wages went down
-Other answers acceptable

400

This was the average wage for a factory worker during the Industrial Revolution

10 cents an hour

500

This was the first industrial British city

Manchester