Fast&Curious - Industrial Revolution

Where did the Industrial Revolution start?

• Great Britain

• France

• Germany

• Spain

Things (Factors) needed for production

• Land

• Labor

• Capital

• Horses

The movement of people into cities is called

• Urbanization

• Enclosure

• Socialism

• Ruralization

Run down multi-story buildings divided into tiny apartments

• Tenements

• Cottage Industry

• Free Market

• Subsidized housing

The Middle Class

• Became rich through investments during the Industrial Revolution

• Lived in well-built homes

• Had neighborhoods with paved streets

• Women worked outside the home

An economy where the government is "hands off"

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Socialism

• Utopianism

The assembly line has

• workers adding parts to a product moving along a belt from one station to the next

• workers performing the same task the whole time

• shown to be very efficient and cost effective

• no women working on it

Working at this time

• Paid little, especially to women and children

• Was dangerous with no protections for workers

• Included 16 hour days

• Was easy for small children

City living

• was gross - many diseases could be caught

• did not provide free police protection or fire fighters

• was overcrowded

• was full of cars

Labor Unions

• were encouraged

• helped workers to get better pay and working conditions

• did not have negative effects

• sent people to threaten bosses