Inventions
Invented the first workable steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
Invention that drastically transformed transportation, communication, and shipping during the Industrial Revolution. It also helped standardize time.
What are railways?
An ideology that promotes political unity and national independence for all groups with a shared language and culture.
What is nationalism?
Invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Skilled workers (artisans) who lost their jobs during the Industrial Revolution and protested by smashing machines.
Who are the Luddites?
A machine that separates seeds from cotton. Revolutionized the textile industry.
What is the cotton gin?
Man-made waterways used for shipping goods.
What are canals?
An ideology that argues for private ownership of the means of production and minimal government intervention in the market.
What is capitalism?
The German chancellor responsible for orchestrating German unification under the rule of Prussia.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
Who is Karl Marx?
A machine that uses Morse code for communication over long distances.
What is a telegraph?
Breaking down a complex task into simpler, specialized components, allowing production to be more efficient. Gave rise to the factory system during the Industrial Revolution.
What is division of labor?
An ideology that argues for a redistribution of economic and political power through government intervention to promote cooperation rather than competition.
What is socialism?
An economist who developed the ideology known as capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' term for the working class.
Who are the proletariat?
Henry Bessemer developed a technique for producing this material, which is stronger, more flexible, and more durable than iron.
What is steel?
A machine that turns raw fibers into thread.
What is the spinning jenny?
An ideology that proposes that a proletariat revolution will create an economically equal and cooperative society and end all class divisions.
What is communism?
Invented the flying shuttle.
Who is John Kay?
Invented the spinning jenny.
Who is James Hargreaves?
An automated harvesting machine that revolutionized agriculture during the Industrial Revolution. Invented by Cyrus McCormick.
What is the mechanical reaper?
A machine that weaves threads into cloth.
What is the flying shuttle?
Adam Smith's term for a "hands-off" style of government that would allow the free market to determine the direction of the economy.
The father of Italian nationalism, who led the group known as the Red Shirts.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
A famous author who used social criticism to bring awareness to the negative impact of industrialization on the working class. His works include Hard Times, Oliver Twist, and A Christmas Carol.
Who is Charles Dickens?