Industrial Revolution Flashcards

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What improvements came out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

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improved building access and egress, established fireproofing guidelines, and required installation of fire, extinguishers, social change, protesting.

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What was used to make sausages produced in the meat packing factories?

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LEFTOVERS. BLEH
POISIN, rats, EWWWWWWW.
ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices and other flavourings

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What happened to people who were injured at work and couldn’t do their job?

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They would get fired…
Permanent disability

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What does the Food and Drug Administration allow to be included in the processed food for human consumption?

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Preserve meat for longer. Some bugs

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What did factory floor managers do to make the factory employees work harder?

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Hit them with that du du du du DU

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What was the Industrial Revolution?

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The altered way that people lived and business was done

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What were the three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?

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Capital
Natural resources
Labor supply
Land

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What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurred in 19th-century Britain and elsewhere in western Europe?

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industrialization. The Industrial Revolution in Britain in the 18th century and the following developments led to a significant change in the nature of cities and towns.

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What did Britain do in order to keep industrial secrets from the United States?

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They passes laws restricting the flow of textile machinery and skilled workers to other countries

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In what way did the Agricultural Revolution pave the way for the Industrial Revolution?

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INCREASED FOOD PRODUCTION.
Improved quality, quantity, and profitability of farm goods. But the landowners farmers became successful that it led to investment of profits into industry and displaced farmers became industry laborers. Increase to food production

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What contributed the most to the shorter life span of those living in cities as opposed to those in the country?

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So the horrible conditions that there was. Comparing in the country was where the rich people lived.

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12
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Which was the first area to undergo major industrialization?

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Textile, Britain

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13
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Name three positive aspects of industrialization?

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economic growth, a more efficient division of labor, and a growth spurt in technological innovation.

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Which areas of life did NOT improve as an early result of the Industrial Revolution?

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Health
Money
People
Education
Couldn’t afford nun

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Name three characteristics of the early Industrial Revolution.

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Division of Labor
Economic growth
Technology
Capital
Steam
Coal Mining
Iron
Technology
Steel

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16
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Name three industries that benefited from the internal combustion engine.

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Factories, ships, locomotives
fuel to burn, oxygen to support combustion, and an ignition source to start combustion.
Factories, ships, and locomotives

17
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What is collective bargaining?

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Union leaders and employers meet together to discuss problems and reach an agreement

18
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The Industrial Revolution started in which country?

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Britain

19
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What was the benefit of the domestic system?

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Flexibility of schedule
Farmers could work their domestic system around the farm schedule while it provided needed income during slow times
Became the basis of the needed technology and skills

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Name three reasons why working in factories during the early Industrial Revolution was dangerous.

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They can get things chopped off
It was noisy
It was stanky
You barely got enough to get passed by
It was NOT safe

21
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What did the enclosure movement do?

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Laws that allowed landowners to take over and fence off private and common lands

22
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What is industrial capitalism?

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Expanding factories or investing in new businesses

Industrial capitalism saw the rapid development of the factory system of production, characterized by much more rigid, complex, and intricate divisions of labor, both within and between production processes, to which reference has already been made.

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Name three factors that allowed for Great Britain to develop the industrial system.

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Land
Labor
Capital

24
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What are interchangeable parts?

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Matching made parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged

25
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Where were most of the earliest factories located?

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