Start It Up
The period when wealthy landowners bought up much of small farmers' land and dramatically improved the farming methods.
Agricultural Revolution
Corporation
An invention used to plant in well-spaced rows quickly with minimal wasted seed.
Seed Drill
This was the most dangerous job a person could have during this time.
Coal mining
Crop Rotation
This was the country where Industrialization began.
Great Britain
An economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit.
Capitalism
This important invention removed seeds from cotton much faster than anyone could by hand.
Cotton Gin
Because there was no adequate sanitation system in place in large cities, human waste would often end up here.
City streets
This was what brought plans for new machinery to other countries from Great Britain.
Smugglers
Clothing/textile
A form of complete socialism in which the means of production would be owned by the people.
Communism
Roads that are privately owned and money is charged to drive on them.
Turnpikes
This was the average life expectancy for members of the working class.
17 years old
Having to do with our global environment, this long-term effect is one of the most troubling impacts of the Industrial Revolution.
Culture of pollution
The mass movement of people to cities.
Urbanization
the law of self-interest, the law of competition, and the law of supply and demand.
Adam Smith's 3 Natural Laws of Economics
These new roads, invented by Scottish engineer John McAdam, allowed even heavy wagons to travel without sinking in mud.
Macadam Roads
This frustrated group of workers began attacking factories and destroying labor-saving machinery that was taking their jobs.
These are the impacts the development of a middle class had on society.
Increased education and democratic participation
The three things a country needed for industrialization.
Land, Labor, Capital
The economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference.
Lassiez-faire economics
This improvement of an invention was used to power steamboats, locomotives, and many other machines.
Watt's steam engine
A epidemic of this disease became widespread in the cramped apartments of the working class.
These are two reasons some countries were not able to industrialize.
Social structure and harsh geography