Industrial Revolution

Question 1

Start of Industrial Revolution

Answer 1

started in Britain bc:
they were wealthy from colonies, exploration, and slave trade
abundant in coal and iron
stable government, during this time everyone else was being ruled by Napolean

Question 2

Flying Shuttle

Answer 2

invented by John Kay sped up the weaving process

Question 3

Spinning Jenny

Answer 3

invented by John Hargreaves

capable of spinning vast amount of thread

Question 4

Cotton Gin

Answer 4

invented by Eli Whitney
allowed massive amounts of cotton to be quickly processed in the Americas and exported to Europe, textile mills were taken out of homes and into mills

Question 5

Steam Engine

Answer 5

Steam engine was used to generate power for industries and for transportation

Question 6

Assembly Line

Answer 6

Henry Ford

allowed products to be produced faster

Question 7

the Factory System

Answer 7

efficient because and inexpensive because the workers were underpaid
Children and women worked long hours at the factories
replaces the putting out system
declined in job opportunities

Question 8

new social classes because of Industrialization

Answer 8

the aristocracy became rich from industrial success, a middle class formed made up of managers, accountants, ministers, lawyers, doctors, the bottom was the working class 
The rise of industrial class originated in the concept of private ownership

Question 9

The Wealth of Nation

Answer 9

written by Adam Smith

he said that economic prosperity is best achieved through private ownership

Question 10

Free market system/capitalism

Answer 10

deals with production being mostly privately owned and operated to gain profit while the production, distribution, and the price of the goods are determined by the free market.

Question 11

Laissez-faire capitalism

Answer 11

when governments remove themselves entirely from regulation

Question 12

Karl Marx

Answer 12

believed that the factory system had good opportunities but were being exploited because of capitalism

Question 13

Communist Manifesto

Answer 13

Manifesto Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote that the working class would revolt and take control of means of production

Question 14

Marxism

Answer 14

served as the foundation of socialism and communism

Question 15

Factory Act of 1833

Answer 15

Once abuses and social consequences were clear, the British Parliament passed these laws

This limited the hours of the workday, restricted children from working in factories, and required factory owners to make working conditions safer and cleaner

Question 16

Labor Unions

Answer 16

employees bargained for better working conditions or threatened to strikes, resulting in shutting down the factory

Question 17

Social Darwinist

Answer 17

dominant races or classes rose to the top through process of “survival of the fittest”

Question 18

White Man’s Burden

Answer 18

written by Rudyard Kipling

Europeans also believed they had a moral obligation to dominate other people or teach them how to become more civilized

Question 19

Luddites

Answer 19

destroyed equipment in factories to protest working conditions and pitiful wages