How people make goods before the Industrial Revolution
100
The country the Industrial Revolution began
What is England?
100
James Watt
Who invented the first efficient steam engine?
100
Lots of money
What is capital?
200
An apprentice
Who is someone training to become a Master Craftsman?
200
Valuable resource for factories
What is water power?
200
Robert Fulton
Who created the first steamboat?
200
Young people who worked in factories and mines, often under extremely dangerous conditions.
What is child labor?
300
Example of cottage industry textiles process
What is cotton cleaner, cotton comber, spinning operation, weaving operation, dyeing operation, and/or cutters?
300
A wealthy individual who is willing to risk money by investing in a business, hoping to make a large profit.
What is an entrepreneur?
300
Inventor of the first locomotive steam engine
Who is George Stephenson?
300
Factory owners paying the absolute minimum, often just barely enough to prevent starvation.
What are low wages?
400
The flaws of the Guild System
What is production was slow, goods were expensive, only one person completed the entire item
400
The huge change in manufacturing methods that began in the 18th Century.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
The main advantages of steam power
Portability, steam engines could be set up anywhere, factories no longer had to be near rivers, could locatated near resources, workers, markets, or transportation hubs.
400
"to leave alone"
What is laissez-faire
500
Pros and Cons of the Cottage Industry
Open ended
500
How come the Industrial Revolution started in England?
Explain Markets, Population, Resources, Entrepreneurs, and/or Good Government
500
What was the impact of steam power?
Travel times were reduced, construction projects now more possible, "changed the world"
500
What is the result of laissez-faire?
Owners of companies became very rich and the “kings of commerce”