Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution
the movement of population into cities and away from rural areas. A rural area is similar to a small farm community.
Urbanization
Invented in 1764, this wheel allowed for a spinner to work 8 threads at one time.
Spinning Jenny
The wealthy business owners who became wealthy off the work of others
Ownership Class
The act of clearing forest land for the purpose of building factories
Deforestation
A statement or action expressing disapproval of something
Protest
The Industrial Revolution begain in this country
Great Britain
the process of making products, or goods, from raw materials by the use of manual labor or machinery.
Manufacturing
Individuals who must work for a wage to survive
Working Class
the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
Pollution
The movement to give women the right to vote in national or local elections
Women's Suffrage Movement
Great Britain was able to acquire natural resources due to contolling a large amount _______________
Colonies
a black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. It is extracted from the Earth by underground mining or by digging large pits.
coal
The employment of children in factories, especially when considered inhumane
child labor
long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
Climate Change
An organization of workers with the goals of ending child labor, increasing pay and giving better working conditions to the working class
The Labor Reform movement
seeks to bring about change within one aspect of society, culture, or technology.
a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
cotton gin
the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
Exploitation
an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
Earth Day
Limited the workday to ten hours for women and children who worked in factories.
societies want change within their societies, specifically with their governments (for ex: French Rev); usually involves overthrowing the govt
political revolution
an economic practice by which governments used their economies to augment state power at the expense of other countries.
mercantilism
He believed workers would unite and overthrow their owners
Karl Marx
The leading cause of pollution in the modern world
Motor vehicles
Granted compensation (money) to workers for on-the job injuries not their own fault.
The first Employers’ Liability Act