Unit 8 Vocab Quiz

Industrial Revolution

• a time in Europe where thought and reason was stressed

• a time period that consisted of advancement in technology, factory building, etc.

• a violent protest against factory owners

• a time when advancement in industry was stopped

Factory system

• moving production of goods from homes to factories. Led to mass production of goods

• an assembly line

• combining multiple factories together

• a system of forcing people to work in factories

Mass production

• producing goods during Catholic Mass

• used to produce goods more slowly

• large scale production of a single product

James Watt

• invented the steam engine

• invented the cotton gin

• invented the lightbullb

• invented the process for making steel

Henry Bessemer

• invented the steam engine

• invented the cotton gin

• invented the lightbullb

• invented the process for making steel

Urbanization

• process in which people moved to cities

• cleaning up cities

• building of skyscrapers

• reforms focused on destroying farmland

Tenements

• a prison

• cheap apartments

• temporary, disposable housing

• where people were forced to live if they broke the law

Unions

• a group of workers that come together to achieve a common goal

• an agreements

• a marriage

• a group of business owners who come together to make more money

Karl Marx

• Economist who wrote the Communist Manifesto

• invented the steam engine

• father of capitalism

• dictator in Communist Russia

Socialism

• a system that says the means of production should be owned by the community

• a system where the military is strictly in charge of the government

• a system that is profit driven and focuses on private business

• a system that has strict classes that separate the top from the bottom