Industry
This is a device which uses boiling water to produce motion, powering factories, boats, and trains.
What is a steam engine?
He wrote The Communist Manifesto and proposed Communism.
Who is Karl Marx?
This was another word for the outlawing or ending of slavery.
What is abolition?
This is another name of the lower class, highlighting their position as the labor force of industrial society.
What is the working class?
He invented the seed drill, and his name is also the name of a 1960s English progressive rock band.
Who is Jethro Tull?
This is another name for a train.
What is a locomotive?
Who is Adam Smith?
This was what many women advocated for during the Industrial Revolution, and was achieved in the United States in 1920 with the 19th Amendment.
What are Voting Rights?
This is when workers refuse to work and stop work at their factory.
What is a strike?
These were fenced or hedged-in parcels of farmland that wealthy landowners used to make agricultural innovations.
What are enclosures?
This British man built many of the first railroads in Great Britain, and was well known for his Rocket.
Who is George Stephenson?
This is the French term for a free market economy without government interference or regulation.
What is laissez-faire?
In Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives, Riis describes the poor living conditions within this type of apartment building.
What is a tenement?
These are organizations of workers that advocate for better working conditions, higher wages, and more.
What are labor unions?
This invention allowed farmers to plant crops more evenly, allowing for better crop yields.
What is the seed drill?
These are land, labor, and capital.
What are factors of production?
This economic system has the government run the production of goods and public ownership of natural resources.
What is Socialism?
This British Member of Parliament advocated for the abolition of slavery.
Who is William Wilberforce?
This was when children would be forced to work for many hours a day, and were not able to go to school.
What is child labor?
This is when farmers chose which sheep they wanted to breed, causing larger lambs.
What is selective breeding?
This device used water to weave cloth.
What is a water frame?
This is what Marx called the working class.
What is the proletariat?
Who is Horace Mann?
This labor law, passed in Great Britain, did not allow children under the age of 9 to work in factories.
What is the Factory Act of 1833?
This is what it is called when people move from the countryside to cities, seeing the growth and development of cities.
What is urbanization?