Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Adam Smith
The Father of Economics and Capitalism.
Karl Marx
German man who came up with communism theory
Henry Bessemer
The Bessemer Process created a way to make steel inexpensively which boosted steel construction.
James Watt
Inventor of the steam engine which fueled mechanical machines using steam as power
Agricultural Revolution
Where farmers invented methods to produce better crop, harvest faster and better, or package the food better.
Cottage industry
A long process where people make things from scratch at home.
Mechanization
Where machines do the work
Socialism
Business men were rich people who had large houses. Poorer people lived in tenements, which are big apartments with tiny rooms.
Enclosures
To buy private land
Factory system
Factories were powered by coal, water, steam, or electricity. Machines did the work while people operated them.
Urbanization
Where people flocked to live closer to factories
Crop rotation
Where farmers rotated their crops so that the plants gave nutrition to the soil or where crops grew best at the time (example: pumpkins during fall).
Industrial Revolution
New ground-breaking inventions that were effective and quick
Capitalism
Investing in businesses
Child labor
Families sent their kids into dangerous factories to earn money for the house
