Economic transformation
What is the domestic system?
When Cottage workers produced goods in home workshops but for national and international markets not for local use.
By what decade had Britain built a system of well maintained roads?
The 1770's.
What does monopoly mean?
A complete control by one firm of the production and or the supply of goods.
What problem began in the 1700's and accelerated in development in China and The Ottoman Empire as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
Their failing military might in comparison to Europe's nations.
Which nation started industrialisation first?
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Britain
What is the factory system?
When groups of people produced goods all together in a single factory rather than produced individually and spread apart.
What five factors allowed Great Britain to be the first to industrialize?
Political stability, plenty of people available for work, plentiful raw materials, banks provided loans for entrepreneurs, cheap and fast transportation of goods.
What was the domestic system?
A pre-industrial system of manufacturing in which workers crafted products in their homes using raw materials.
France began to industrialise in the 1820's with the help of British equipment, entrepreneurs, and engineers. It established textile mills and steam engines across the country, but it lacked one resource which it imported from Great Britain and Belgium. What was this resource and what did French factories mainly rely on for power as a result?
1. The resource was coal
2. French factories mainly relied on water power
The Bessemer process is converting what into what?
Iron into Higher quality steel
In the 1830s Cyrus mccormick developed?
A horse drawn mechanical reaper
Why couldn’t factories be built away from rivers prior to coal powered steam engines?
People relied on water wheels to power the factories.
What was the importance of interchangeable parts?
It allowed for mass production, reduced manufacturing cost, and this led to the beginning of the assembly line
Machinery during the industrial revolution would overheat and grind to a halt if not lubricated. Through much of the 1800's, specifically what was originally used to lubricate the machinery? Additionally, SPECIFICALLY what lubricant was used after 1859?
1. Whale oil was first used.
2. After 1859 Kerosene was used.
Name all the nations that took part in the industrial revolution.
Britain, Germany, France, United States of America, Japan, Belgium, Ottoman Empire, China.
what was added during the agricultural revolution?
New machinery for farming, chemical fertilizers for improved soil, cover crops, increased irrigation, superior livestock.
What did the steam engine's application to transportation lead to the development of?
Steam locomotive, railroads
This system replaced the domestic system and centralized production in large buildings, often using machines and wage labor.
The factory system
What was the second country to industrialise during the industrial revolution?
Belgium
What started to replace coal during the industrial revolution?
Natural Gas and Fossil Fuels
What in the financing industry helped the industrial revolution?
The banking system and wealthy individuals and capitalists
Which of Great Britain’s industries was the first to be transformed and which inventions allowed it to do so?
Textile production, flying shuttle, spinning jenny
This economic system, promoted by thinkers like Adam Smith during the Industrial Revolution, is based on private ownership and minimal government interference in business.
Capitalism
Where was the first commercially successful oil well?
In Pennsylvania
Factories, the shift to simplification, and the use of interchangeable and standardized parts were major aspects of came to be known as____
Mass production