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TECHNOLOGY
STRIKES
LABOR
FACTORIES
100
Steam Engine
What is the invention that James Watts created that powered machines, trains and steamships?
100
Working conditions and wages.
What is the reason that workers went on strike?
100
Men, Women and Children
Who is what people worked during the Industrial Revolution?
100
Known as the cloth-weaving industry
What is the Textile Industry?
200
Steel
What is the metal that Bessemer designed a better method to produce?
200
Workers refuse to work trying to force business owners to meet their demands.
What is a strike?
200
The amount of hours that people worked in factories and how many days a week.
What is 12 to 16 hours a day, 6 days a week?
200
Assembly Line and Interchangeable Parts
What is the two ideas in technology that increased production in factories?
300
Iron
What is the metal that Abraham Darby find a better way to get?
300
Response to unsafe working conditions.
What is the formation of labor unions?
300
Hiring these people as workers saved factory owners money.
What is women and children?
300
Transportation
What is the advances in this area improved the efficiency of the factory system?
400
Steam Engine changed the Textile Industry
What is factories no longer had to be located near a water source?
400
Labor Unions
What is the group responsible for the strikes?
400
Tenements
What is where did the working class live in the industrial cities?
400
Railroads
What is the form of transportation that replaced canal and river system of transportation of goods?
500
Electricity
What replaced steam as the main source of energy?
500
Iron Law of Wages
What is the idea that wage increases are useless because they will not cover the cost of basic necessities?
500
Young unmarried women hired to work in factories.
What is Lowell Mill Girls?
500
Railroad
What is the mode of transportation that allowed goods to be shipped to companies and factories easier?