Industrial Revolution (First/Second) & Democracy-Ch. 23-24

Henry Bessemer created a cheaper way to produce a product that created an industrial use in making railroads safer and able to last longer.

• Militarism

• Steel manufacturing industry

• Communication industry

• Assembly Line

Jethro Tull invented this machine as a way to plant seeds more efficiently in well-spaced rows and depths to yield more crops.

• Cotton Gin

• Seed Drill

• Spinning Jenny

• Water Frame

Children, from a young age, were forced to work in unsafe working conditions within the factory systems

• Child Labor

• Adult Labor

• Factory Labor

• None of these

This industry grew throughout Europe and the US thanks to an inventor known as Alexander Graham Bell.

• Steel manufacturing industry

• Electricity Industry

• Communication industry

• Textile industry

Thomas Edison contributes to this industry by giving factories and businesses the ability to remain open all night. ​

• Electricity Industry

• Steel manufacturing industry

• Communication industry

• Assembly Line

Believed the government should not interfere with the economy and defended the idea of a free economy and free markets in his book, The Wealth of Nations (1776).

• Adam Smith

• Karl Marx

• Robert Owen

• James Francis

Money available for investment

• Capital

• Entrepreneur

• Bourgeoisie

• Militarism

Based on a man’s theory of “natural selection: survival of the fittest

• Socialism

• Social Darwinism

• Suffrage

• Bourgeoisie

A person who finds new business opportunities a new ways to make profits

• Entrepreneur

• Feminism

• Suffrage

• Militarism

The movement for women’s rights.

• Feminism

• Socialism

• Capital

• Suffrage