Impacts
The book The Jungle was written by Upton Sinclair. He went undercover to expose this.
What is the terrible working practices and conditions in the meatpacking industry in Chicago?
Children as young as this age were working during the Industrial Revolution.
What is 4 years old?
An economic system in which government involvement is minimal and private ownership is encouarged.
What is capitalism?
Definition of capital.
What is money used to make more money? Valuables or money that you own.
The term used for people moving from rural towns to cities mainly for work.
What is urbanization?
A positive impact of the Industrial Revolution.
What is it allowed goods to be produced faster, new products introduced, quicker transportation, new inventions, and cheaper products? (Any of these work)
The purpose of the Declaration of Dependence.
What is to stop child labor and create laws to help children?
A system based on earning wages by working, private ownership, supply and demand, and you pay for what you get.
What is Laissez-faire capitalism?
Producing goods in a small production typically at home
What is cottage industry?
The country where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is England (or Great Britain)?
This is the transition or change to an industry based society.
What is industrialization or the Industrial Revolution?
These were created to support workers and the terrible conditions they faced in the factories during the Industrial Revolution.
What are labor unions?
Father of Communism who believed in no private ownership and government owns all property and businesses in society.
Who is Karl Marx?
Refusal to work as a form of protest.
What is a strike.
A negative impact of urbanization.
What is overcrowding, crime, and pollution?
How people made goods before the Industrial Revolution.
What is by hand?
Child labor during the Industrial Revolution included these negative conditions.
What are injuries, lack of nutrition (malnourished), diseases, low wages, long hours?
Government run programs like education and healthcare are supported by the government through these?
What are high taxes?
Apartment building during the Industrial Revolution.
What is a tenement home?
This invention majorly impacted the transportation of goods and people in urban cities during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the railroad?
This is how people made goods after the Industrial Revolution.
What is with machines?
New energy sources like coal helped factories produce more goods but also caused this.
What is pollution?
The economic system with the motto "what is good for one, is good for all" and includes minimal private ownership (but some) and government run programs.
What is socialism?
The definition of textile.
What is cloth, clothing, or cotton industries.
People moved to the cities from __________ areas during the Industrial Revolution.
What is rural?