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Where did the Industrial Revolution start in Europe?
Great Britian
This invention by James Watt powered trains and ships.
What is the steam engine?
The average worker spent this many hours a day and this many days a week in factories.
What are 14 hours a day and 6 days a week?
In this system, businesses are privately owned, and people compete to make a profit.
What is Capitalism?
These groups of workers formed to demand better pay and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
Before the Industrial Revolution, most people lived in these areas and worked these jobs.
What are rural areas and farms?
This invention greatly increased cotton production but also expanded slavery in the U.S.
What is the cotton gin?
Who was the cheapest source of labor for factories?
What are children?
In this system, property and factories are shared, and the government helps control the economy.
What is Socialism?
When negotiations failed, unions used this tactic to stop working until demands were met.
What is a strike?
This process describes people moving from farms to cities.
What is urbanization?
This invention coordinated railroad and shipping schedules.
What is the Telegraph?
What were the living conditions like during the Industrial Revolution?
Answers may include: Crowded tenements, polluted cities, long work hours, low wages, and unsafe, unsanitary living conditions.
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
This British leader pushed Parliament to end the slave trade in the empire in 1807.
Who is William Wilberforce?
This communication invention sent messages instantly using electrical signals.
What is the telegraph?
This invention lowered the cost of cloth and shifted weaving from homes into factories.
What is the power loom?
True or False: Workers who were hurt on the job had no access to this kind of aid.
What is True
According to Marx, the Industrial Revolution enriched the __________ and impoverished the __________.
Who are the wealthy and the poor?
College-educated women like Jane Addams ran these centers that helped poor urban neighborhoods.
What are settlement houses?
Before modern communication, messages depended on this slow method.
What is mail carried by messengers or horseback?
This invention helped factories run machines continuously, increasing production and boosting urbanization.
What is the steam engine?
What kind of sanitation problems occurred during the Industrial Revolution?
What is polluted water, overflowing waste, and a lack of proper sewage systems?
Supply and demand determine prices in this economic system.
What is capitalism?
In 1848, this movement began in the United States.
What is the movement for women's rights?