Beginning of the I.R.
Society During I.R.
Social Reform
Vocabulary
100

The country where the Industrial Revolution began.

What is Britain?

100

The movement of people into cities.

What is urbanization?

100

A social reformer who made 13 missions to plantations to rescue enslaved people.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

100

The organized effort to end the practice of slavery.

What is abolitionism?

200

The main source of energy during the Industrial Revolution.

What is coal?

200

The social class created by the Industrial Revolution.

What is the middle class?

200

A mission by free Blacks and Whites to rescue the escaped slave John Price from slave catchers.

What is the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue?

200

Multistory buildings divided into apartments that were often in poor condition.

What are tenements?

300

The main causes of the Industrial Revolution.

Agricultural Revolution; urbanization; growing population

300

The dirty, foul-smelling neighborhoods the working class lived in.

What are slums?

300

A social reformer who was arrested for voting in an election.

Who is Susan B. Anthony?

300

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.

What is a labor union?

400

The main factors behind Britain's early industrialization.

Britain's geography; Agricultural Revolution; new technology; colonial markets?

400

The middle class wanted society to based on this instead of birth.

What is merit?

400

The first state to grant women the right to vote.

What is Wyoming?

400

A document modeled after the Declaration of Independence that emphasized the need to attain the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women.

What was the Declaration of Sentiments?

500

The types of jobs former farm laborers took when they moved into cities.

What are factory workers and miners?

500

The sect of Christianity founded by John Wesley that encouraged sober, moral living.

What is Methodism?

500

The labor union founded by Samuel Gompers that was very successful in its mission.

What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

500

Taking over & combining lands formerly shared by peasants.

What is enclosure?