Unit 4 Industrial Revolution

Exploitative use of children, used to keep production costs low.

• Factory system

• Bessemer Process

• Child Labor

• Bloody Harlan

A violent struggle between coal miners and mine operators during the early 20th century.

• Bloody Harlan

• Homestead Labor Strike

• Triangle Shirtwaist Massacre

• Carnegie Coal Fight

Inventor of the spinning frame. Known as the "Father of the Factory".

• Richard Arkwright

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Henry Ford

Manufacturing system often used in factories where each worker handles a specific part in the assembly process.

• Factory System

• Child Labor

• Bessemer Process

• Assembly Line

Method of manufacturing that uses machinery and a division of labor at a common central location.

• Bessemer Process

• Factory system

• Assembly Line

• Steam Engine Process

Important invention of the Industrial Revolution, powers factories, trains, and other inventions.

• Bessemer Process

• Steam Engine

• Assembly Lines

• Capitalism

The process of making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to remove impurities.

• Bessemer Process

• Steam Engine

• Factory System

• Assembly Line

Overcrowded, low income apartment housing in cities during the Industrial Revolution

• Factory housing

• Tenement housing

• Homestead Housing

• Union housing

Deadly workplace disaster that was the result of unsafe working conditions.

• Homestead Steel Mill Explosion

• Bloody Harlan

• The Tenement Collapse

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Organized association of workers, formed to gain better conditions and more power in the work place.

• Union

• Tenement

• Cohort

• Labor Group