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He built the first assembly line
Who is Henry Ford
100
When workers produce products at their homes
What is the domestic system
100
A system in which a factory worker does one specific job all day.
What is division of labor
100
two or more entrepreneurs teaming up to increase their business
What is a partnership?
200
This inventor found a way to process cotton quickly and easily.
Who was Eli Whitney
200
When workers come to a central place and use machinery to build products
What is the factory system?
200
This person starts their own business.
What is an entrepreneur?
200
Two or more partnerships combining to increase business.
What is a corporation?
200
The most famous invention of Alexander Graham Bell
What is the telephone?
300
This inventor started working on gasoline engines first.
Who was Rudolph Diesel?
300
These replaced the original hand made machinery parts
What are interchangeable parts?
300
When workers and factory owners meet to decide on pay and work rules
What is collective bargaining?
300
Making a large amount of product in a short amount of time
What is mass production?
300
The most famous invention of Guglielmo Marconi
What is the radio?
400
This inventor built the first telegraph machine.
Who was Samuel Morse?
400
A point in history when there is wide spread poverty and little progress
What is a depression?
400
A class of people who worked, saved money, and eventually were rich enough to hire servants
What is the middle class?
400
A common occurrence in early factories due to lack of safety precautions.
What is injury and death?
400
The famous invention of the Wright Brothers.
What is the airplane?
500
This inventor successfully used tungsten to make the first incandescent light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
500
A group of people who fight for worker's rights in their business or factory.
What is a labor union?
500
The people who labored in the factories and made only enough money to live on.
What is the working class?
500
The term for the age of new machinery, factories and mass production.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
Was designed by James Watt.
What is the steam engine?