industrial revolution

What was the Industrial Revolution?

• Increase in city population

• Widespread child labor

• increase in land purchase

• increase in machine made goods

Why did the cottage industry decline

• merchants became greedy

• the steel plow improved farming

• population declined

• demand for textiles outpaced what could be produced

Which individual theorized about an "invisible hand"?

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• Montequieu

• Thomas Aquinas

Which scientist helped to reduce the spread of disease?

• Galileo

• James Watt

• Louis Pasteur

• Sir Isaax Newton

How did the Industrial Revolution affect the middle class?

• it increased

• left urban areas

• it decreased

• remained the same

What did the first factories use as a power source?

• water or iron

• water or steam

• steam of wind

• electricity or iron

which development of the industrial revolution is represented *Shows pictures of kids in factories*

• machines replacing workers

• child labor

• rise of unions

• unions demanding rights

What were the effects of the railroad

• farmers rebelled

• it expanded slowly

• factories went out of business

• it fueled other industries

name for voluntary groups of workers who seek labor reforms

• strikes

• unions

• utilitarianism

• collective bargaining

What was one important impact of the inventions listed below?

telephone

vacuum

toaster

• increase in handmade products

• understanding the laws of nature

• increase in manufactured goods

• decline in farming