Industrial Revolution

An era from the mid 1700s to the early 1900s that included many significant technological advances that changed the way most people lived & worked.

• Industrial Revolution

• urbanization

• steam engine

• assembly line

A production strategy that involves having each worker contribute to each product

• urbanization

• assembly line

• steam engine

• tenements

The rapid growth of cities

• Urbanization

• assembly line

• steam engine

• Industrial Revolution

An economy that includes subsistence farming, cottage industry, little to know government involvement

• Traditional economy

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Communism

This invention helped start the Industrial Revolution. It was used to power new machines and new forms of transportation, like the locomotive.

• steam engine

• water loom

• telephone

• telegraph

An economy that private ownership of business, competition and investing for profit

• Traditional Economy

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Communism

Groups of workers that advocated for safer working conditions, better wages, and fairer hours.

• Labor union

• assembly line

• steam engine

• urbanization

Which of the following is true about the Industrial Revolution and the production of goods?

• More goods were being made in factories

• Fewer factories used the assembly line

• More goods were made by hand

• There were fewer new inventions than in the previous century

How did the assembly line impact production?

• It created custom hand-made goods

• It created identical goods

• It slowed down production.

• It led to more expensive products

What purpose did colonies serve during the Industrial Revolution?

• They provided raw goods to industrializing countries

• Provide a market for handmade goods

• Spread the benefits of democracy

• Spread nationalism