Industrial Revolution 1
The country first to industrialize.
What was Great Britain
People start moving into cities in a process called___________.
What is urbanization?
This natural resource, in ample supply in England powered steam engines.
What is coal?
Name two natural resources found in abundance in England.
What is Iron and Coal?
The reason people moved to more urban areas during the Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution resulted in a transformation due to advances in manufacturing, transforming England from rural to a(n)_____ lifestyle/society. This lead to changes in ______as well as in working.
What is Urban; Living
A production method in which workers repeatedly perform the same task in the manufacturing process.
What is the assembly line?
What is the textile industry?
The father of Capitalism who wrote the book "The Wealth of Nations."
Who is Adam Smith?
Name an enduring issue that has to do with the Industrial Revolution AND explain it?
What is
Impact of Innovations
population growth
Impact of interconnectedness
environmental impact
Scarcity
etc.
Name two causes that allowed Great Britain to industrialize
What is
Lots of Resources
Population Increase
Avoided Wars
Free Market, etc.
New farming methods and technology in the early 1700's that led to increased crop production and a steady supply of food.
What is The Agricutural Revolution?
The money used to invest in a business or technology.
What is capital?
True or false: Under the factory system, workers own the means of production.
What is False
One type of socialism believed it was important to stop the inequalities of capitalism, end the struggle between the bourgeoisie (middle class) & the (working class), and create a classless society. This is called____________.
What is communism?
Name two negative effects of industrialization.
What is Pollution, crime, disease, over crowding, tenements, poor living conditions, poor sanitation
List two of the poor working and living conditions that many suffered moving into cities and working in factories.
What are Long Hours; Low Wages; Dangerous Working Conditions, Child Labor, etc.
Government should not interfere in/regulate the natural market.
What is laissez-faire?
Who co-authored a book where he shared his thoughts on a classless society with Frederick Engles AND what was the name of the book?
Who was Karl Marx and "The Communist Manifesto?
People eventually began to take action based off socialist theories to organize and promote reform. List any two things they did.
What is strike, collective bargaining, slaves fought for freedom; Women fight for equality; Education for Children
The emergence of the _____________, or new middle class (separate from nobles and poor), creates an upper middle class of factory owners and business men/women and a lower class made up of ________________________.
What is Bourgeoisie; Industrial Working Class
List the factors needed to industrialize.
What are Land, Labor, Capital, and Enterperurnship
By turning a single large wheel on this machine, the operator could spin eight or more cotton threads, making cotton production quicker and cheaper
Identify the invention.
What is the Spinning Jenny
Eventually, the people start to organize themselves and formed socialist political parties and unions to improve working conditions. One of these ideas was based off____________, or the idea of “equality for all people.”
What is socialism?
“It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with illsmelling dye. . . .”
— Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Which innovation most directly contributed to the conditions described in the passage?
What is the steam engine?