Inventors and Inventions
He invented the cotton gin AND interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
What is proletariat?
The name for the time period between 1750s - 1900s where major technological advances were made
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Early Industrial Revolution, factories were built near these
What is a river?
What is capital?
He invented the mechanical reaper which cut the grain crop as the machine was being pulled. He also introduced the threshing machine which loosened the grain to make this process easier and faster.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
Termed by Karl Marx - the term for the ruling class
Who is the bourgeoisie?
This was an important source of power in the Industrial Revolution AFTER water
What is the steam engine? (coal/iron)
These are the people that lived in rural villages pre-Industrial Revolution
Who are artisans?
The process of large groups of people moving to cities and towns from farms
What is urbanization?
He invented a faster way to weave with water-powered looms.
Who is Edmund Cartwright?
The organization of workers formed to pressure business owners to improve wages and working conditions
What is a labor union?
A factor that contributed to Great Britain's success in the Industrial Revolution
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Other than the U.S. and Great Britain, this country ranked among the industrial powers
What is Germany?
Someone who establishes businesses and accepts the risks
What is an entrepreneur?
He introduced the assembly line into factory labor which made the process of manufacturing mass goods much faster.
Who is Henry Ford?
The government owns and controls the economy and the production of goods
What is socialism?
This is the industry that increased the production of the factory system.
What is the textile industry? (cottage/cotton)
The percentage of Europeans living in towns or cities pre-Industrial Revolution.
What is 25%
A form of economic government where individuals can own property BUT industry and production is controlled by the government.
What is socialism?
He developed a process for mass-producing steel in an efficient and inexpensive way. This changed the way machines and factories were built.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
In the late Industrial Revolution, this is where the poor lived
What is near the factories?
The natural resource that allowed steam engine trains and steamboat to be developed
What is steel?
They wrote The Communist Manifesto
A form of economic government where individuals and private firms own the production of goods and services. This type of economy creates competition.
What is capitalism?