Industries Transformed
The Industrial Revolution started in this country.
What is Britain?
This 1769 invention by Richard Arkwright used water to speed up textile production and produce finer cotton yarn.
What is the water frame?
Child labor was common during the Industrial Revolution, with some instances of children working as young as this age.
What is five years old?
What is mercantilism?
These individuals were primarily transported from Africa to the Americas during the triangular trade.
Who are enslaved Africans?
During the Industrial Revolution, people moved to cities for these types of jobs, often for low wages.
What are factory jobs?
James Watt improved this machine, making it key to industrializing manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation.
What is the steam engine?
Many workers during the Industrial Revolution worked long days, often up to this many hours.
What is 16?
The shift from mercantilism to this system emphasized minimal government interference.
What is capitalism?
This term describes the brutal sea journey from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
Before the Industrial Revolution, production was small-scale, often called this type of industry.
What is the cottage industry?
Alphonse Beau de Rochas and Nikolaus Otto built this engine, which powers today’s cars and motorcycles.
What is the internal combustion engine?
This demographic group had to fight especially hard for better working conditions and suffrage.
Who are women?
This ideology advocates for government intervention to address inequalities of laissez-faire capitalism.
What is socialism?
The transatlantic slave trade led to this long-term effect on the growth and development of Africa.
What is a decline in population growth?
Industrial advances led to this empire's global dominance.
What is the British Empire?
Michael Faraday invented this in 1830, which created electric currents and helped develop the telegraph.
What is the electric generator?
Diseases in cities during the Industrial Revolution ran rampant up until cities improved water supplies and built these.
What are sewers?
Karl Marx co-authored this 1848 pamphlet calling for a workers' revolution.
What is "The Communist Manifesto"?
This trade, named after a shape, was designed to cover costs and maximize profits by trading goods at stopping points along the journey.
What is triangular trade?
The Industrial Revolution increased the need for transportation, which was later addressed in acts such as these.
What are the Turnpike Acts?
Henry Ford's 1913 innovation sped up production but increased demand for cheap, unskilled labor.
What is the moving assembly line?
Education reforms were made during the Industrial Revolution, seen in this act that required education for children 5-13.
What is the 1870 Education Act?
This economic system, common in 18th and 19th-century England, emphasizes private ownership and minimal government involvement.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
European colonists relied heavily on enslaved Africans to produce these crops in the New World.
Sugar, cotton, and tobacco.