Key terms
Name of building where they would make goods
Factory
British law that restricted labor unions in the early 1800s.
Combination Act
Invented the steam engine improvement
James Watt
The revolution that began around 1750 in Britain
1 Industrial Revolution
Country where the Industrial Revolution began
Great Brittan
Workers moving to cities
urbanization
Laws passed to regulate child labor in factories
Factory Acts
Wrote The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Major shift to steel, electricity, and chemicals
2 Industrial Revolution
Invention that powered trains and factories
steam engine
System where products are made in homes
cottage industry
Policy that allowed businesses to operate with little government interference
laissez-faire
Wrote The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
A protest in 1811–1813 where British workers destroyed machines they believed threatened their jobs
Luddite Movement
Main fuel of the First Industrial Revolution
Coal
factory-wide manufacturing with workers performing one task.
assembly line
British policy that restricted grain imports, affecting workers’ food prices
Corn Laws
Invented the spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
Worker protests and strikes demanding better wages and hours
Labor movements
Disease that spread rapidly in crowded industrial cities
Cholera
Economic system where businesses are privately owned and operated for profit
Capitalism
Marx’s proposed system to replace capitalism
socialism/communism
Steel industry tycoon
Andrew Carnegie
British act that regulated hours of women and children
10 hour act
Term for private roads that charged fees for travel
Turnpikes