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Vocabulary
Inventions and Technology
Manufacture
Workers
Concepts
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Patent

A document stating that someone has the sole rights to make and sell a product

100
The ___________ helped trains and boats move faster.
What is the steam engine
100
What does MANUFACTURE mean?
to make goods using labor and machines
100

In an attempt to improve working conditions, workers joined these


Labor Union

100

What is Social Gospel?

A movement that combined religious ideals with charity work in order to create social reforms

200

Mass production

Producing large quantities of an item using an automated or mechanical process

200
Name 2 new technologies during the time of industrialization
What is: steam engine, steamboat, railroads, spinning wheel, water wheel, loom
200
What is CHILD LABOR?
Small children had to work with machines in factories during the time of Industrialization
200

This means of production was widely used during the Industrial Revolution but is rarely used today in the United States

Child labor

200

What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

An organization of skilled workers from local craft unions that focused on specific workers' issues

300

Company towns

A community where a single company owns or controls most or all of the town's businesses and housing, and is the main employer

300

What is an example of an invention that impacted agriculture?

steel plow, reaper, cotton gin, steam engine

300
A __________ is a fabric or a material that is used to make clothes
What is a textile
300

True or false: The industrial revolution allowed for more women to find work outside of the home since they could work at factories

True

300

What happened at the Haymarket Riot?

a bomb was thrown into a crowd of police officers during a labor protest, resulting in several deaths and injuries

400

Capitalism

An economic system where individuals control the means of production and the government is not involved in regulating the economy

400

What impact did the agricultural revolution have on technology?

It made a food surplus and not everyone had to be a farmer which allowed for job specialization and the development of new technology

400
BEFORE Industrialization, people used __________ to produce goods like clothes. AFTER Industrialization people used ___________ to produce goods like clothes.
BEFORE - by hand, manual AFTER - machines
400

What was the goal of Upton Sinclair when writing The Jungle?

To expose dangerous working conditions and advocate for workers' rights

400
Laissez-Faire

The belief that the government should not be involved in the economy

500

Socialism

An economic/political system where the workers own the means of production and all people are given welfare from the government equally

500

Why was the transcontinental railroad important to the industrial revolution?

It allowed quicker transportation of goods and people and connected different parts of the United States together

500

What was one positive effect of the change from production by hand to production in factories with machines? What was one negative effect?

Ms. Neuman will decide if your answer is worth 500 points!

500

What group worked to organize workers from many industries together and advocate for social reforms?

The Knights of Labor

500

Social Darwinism

The belief that some groups of people are inherently better than others and therefore should be incharge