Capitalism
In this system, families worked on farms or in shops and most people were artisans or craftsmen.
What is the Domestic System?
These three things were improved according to Adam Smith's description of the division of labor.
What are dexterity, new tools, and loss of time.
During the Gilded Age, the price of this necessity was even more than the cost of living.
What is the price of food?
This person immigrated to New York City from Denmark and became a photographer / journalist that revealed the terrible conditions of the tenements in his book How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This allowed inventors to profit from their inventions, which increased the amount of new inventions made.
What is a patent?
In this system, there are large factories and often poor working conditions.
What is the Factory System?
On an assembly line, each person's job was this.
What is simple and repeatable?
The three reasons child labor so popular
-they had to be paid less so cheaper to employ
-they didn't unionize
-they followed instructions better
This book was published by Upton Sinclair in 1906.
What is The Jungle?
This industry was originally not very profitable because it was used for lighting but it became a very profitable business after the invention of the combustable engine.
What is oil/petroleum?
This part of the United States was relatively unsuccessful at industrialization and still has some domestic system today.
What is the South?
This person is typically credited with inventing the conveyor belt.
Who is Henry Ford?
There were this many workplace safety laws during most of the Gilded Age.
How many is 0?
This was Sinclair's goal when he wrote his book The Jungle.
What is to reveal the terrible working conditions?
New technologies (like the telegram, steam engine, and electricity) drastically increased the efficiency of these three things.
What are communication, transportation, and energy usage?
Thomas Jefferson had a Yoeman farming vision for America, but this person had an industrialized vision.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Allowed unskilled workers to produce a large number of parts.
What are pre-manufactured parts?
This word finished the quote: "I aimed at the public's heartand by accident I hit it in the ________." --Upton Sinclair