Industrial revolution 1
An invention that improved agriculture by planting seeds in straight rows.
Seed drill
A system that controlled workers and was able to bring workers and machines together under one roof.
The Factory System
The amount of hours an average worker worked.
12-16 hours
Name for the movement of people to cities
What is urbanization?
This natural resource, in ample supply in England, powered steam engines.
What is coal?
This industry was the first to use factories.
What is the textile industry?
A reason England was the first country to industrialize.
What is available capital, resources of coal and iron, an abundant labour force.
A method where the workers are standing by a conveyor belt.
Assembly line
This social class came to rival the wealthy aristocracy during the 1800's
The middle class
A group of workers that were hired because they were very cheap and there were many of them.
Children
Industry in which families in the countryside created goods for sale in their homes.
Cottage Industry
The money used to invest in a business or industry
What is capital
Invention that was originally designed to pump water out of coal mines
What is the steam engine?
Growing cities suffered from these problems
Bad sanitation, substandard housing and rapid spread of disease.
A form of complete Socialism in which all means of production is owned by the people
What is communism?
This new method prevented the soil from wearing out by planting different crops every other year.
Crop rotation
The fencing off of public lands to create larger lands to farm.
Enclosure movement
Gottlieb Daimler used an internal combustion engine to build one of the first...
automobile
He defended the free-market system of capitalism in the book, The Wealth of Nations
Who is Adam Smith?
Organisations that helped workers to gain better working conditions.
Labor Unions
Economic policy that lets owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference.
What is laissez-faire capitalism
Invented by Samuel F.B. Morse
The telegraph
Invented the cotton gin
Who was Eli Whitney?
Inventor of the telephone
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
The name of the act which limited the working day for children. 8 hours a day for 9-13 year olds and 12 hours a day for 14-18 year olds.
The Factory act