WH VOCAB: Industrial Revolution & Imperialism - Wk 1

The shift, beginning in England during the 18th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine.

• Industrial Revolution
• Unions
• Factory System
• Mass Production

A manufacturing method for a standardized product in which fixed capital, raw material, & labor operations are centralized & sophisticated machinery is often used.

• Industrial Revolution
• Unions
• Factory System
• Mass Production

The production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.

• Industrial Revolution
• Unions
• Factory System
• Mass Production

Mathematical instrument maker at the University of Glasgow in Scotland – figured out a way to make the steam engine work faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel.

• James Watt
• Henry Bessemer
• Karl Marx
• Social Darwinism

The growth of cities and the migration of people into them.

• Urbanization
• Tenements
• Unions
• Berlin Conference

A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

• Urbanization
• Tenements
• Unions
• Berlin Conference

The gainful employment of children below an age determined by law or custom.

• Capitalism
• Socialism
• Imperialism
• Child Labor

An association of workers formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wagers.

• Industrial Revolution
• Unions
• Factory System
• Mass Production

1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.

• James Watt
• Henry Bessemer
• Karl Marx
• Social Darwinism

An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all.

• Capitalism
• Socialism
• Imperialism
• Child Labor