WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution
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A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Revolution
Socialist Revolution
drug that prevents pain during surgery
enclosure
anesthetic
antiseptic
drugs
Invented the seed drill
Jethro Tull
Eli Whitney
the process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers
encircle
entrapment
enclosure
envelop
During the 1700s, people began to use new energy sources, such as steam engines powered by coal
dynamite revolution
dynamo revolution
agricultural revolution
energy revolution
developed a steam engine powered by coal to pump water out of mines
Thomas Newcomen
James Watt
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry.
Thomas Newcomen
James Watt
used coal instead of charcoal to smelt iron; built the world's first iron bridge
Abraham Darby
Abraham (the Abraham... Isaac was his son)
Henry Bessemer
Eli Whitney
A system developed in the eighteenth century in which tasks were distributed to individuals who completed the work in their own homes; also known as cottage industry.
putting-in system
putting-out system
putting-up system
putting-down system
invented the spinning jenny; it spun many threads at the same time.
James Hargreaves
Eli Whitney
George Stephenson
William Cockerill
Invented the cotton gin which separated the seeds from the cotton
James Hargreaves
Eli Whitney
George Stephenson
William Cockerill
English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825
James Hargreaves
Eli Whitney
George Stephenson
William Cockerill
founded a textile factory in Belgium bringing industrialization to continental Europe
James Hargreaves
Eli Whitney
George Stephenson
William Cockerill
Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
monolopy
laissez-faire economics
lazy-faire economics
big business
Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations a precursor to modern capitalism.
Adam Thomas
Adam White
Adam Smith
Adam Jones
English economist who formulated the "iron law of wages," according to which wages would always remain at the subsistence level for the workers because of population growth.
David Ricardo
Karl Marx
Henry Bessemer
John Dalton
idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
utilitarianism
socialism
communism
Marxism
A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.
romanticism
socialism
communism
realism
19th century philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and revolutionary. Often recognized as the father of communism. Analysis of history led to his belief that communism would replace capitalism as it replaced feudalism. Believed in a classless society.
Lenin
Karl Marx
Joseph Stalin
Charles Darwin
Englishman who developed the first efficient method for the mass production of steel.
Alfred Nobel
Henry Bessemer
Invented dynamite; donated funds for the Nobel Peace Prize still given out today.
Alfred Nobel
Henry Bessemer
American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic phonograph, and motion pictures.
Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison
Alfred Nobel
Henry Ford
English chemist who created the first simple electric motor and the first dynamo.
Alfred Nobel
Michael Faraday
American bicycle makers that designed and flew a flimsy airplane in North Carolina in 1903. Although their plane only stayed in the air for a few seconds, it ushered in the air age.
Henry Ford
Guglielmo Marconi
Wilbur the pig
Orville & Wilbur Wright
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
corporation
monopoly
monotonous
cartel
A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
corporation
stock
monopoly
cartel
Nutrition improved...
improved methods of food storage.
Jesus loved them.
improved methods of farming.
improved methods of food distribution.
He clearly showed the link between microbes & disease. He made a vaccine for rabies & anthrax. He also discovered pasteurization that killed disease-carrying microbes in milk.
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Joseph Lister
John Dalton
He was a German doctor that identified a bacterium that caused tuberculosis, a respiratory disease that claimed about 30 million human lived in the 1800s.
People began to see that germs cause diseases.
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Joseph Lister
John Dalton
Founder of modern nursing; she said, "The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm." As a nurse in the Crimean War, she insisted on better hygiene. She worked to introduce sanitary measures in British hospitals.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
Florence Nightingale
Lucretia Mott
He began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery.
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Joseph Lister
John Dalton
What is the movement of people from farms to cities?
Utilitarianism
Urbanization
Proletariat
Enclosure Movement
A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.
Cartel
Corporation
Factory
Urbanization
In which European country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
France
Britian
Prussia
Spain
Some of the machines invented in the 18th and 19th centuries are:
telephones, geographic positioning system, radios, airplanes
steam engine, railroads, flying shuttle, phonograph, steam ships, light bulb
sailboats, automobiles, wheel barrels, clocks, word processors
automatic washer, hair dryer, rockets, space shuttles
Capitalism is
An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and money is invested to make profits.
An economic system in which the means of production are owned by the public (government) and operate for the welfare of all.
The early Industrial Revolution workers faced all these conditions EXCEPT:
miserable working conditions
dangerous working conditions
minimal pay for long hours
control over seasonal schedule
What natural resources gave Great Britain an advantage in the Industrial Revolution?
water and forests
wildlife and precious gems
coal and iron
good harbors
Which industry did the Industrial Revolution first take hold in Great Britain?
textiles
iron production
agriculture
transportation
In pre-industrial times (before the industrial revolution), most people lived…
on very large farms
on rented lands
in cities
in rural villages
Which term refers to “money to invest in labor, machines and raw materials” necessary to start a factory and industrialize?
Capital
Industrialization
Entrepreneur
Factory system
Many changes were made to a rural (country) village as it was changed into an industrial town. Which factor of production is connected to a factory’s need for workers from the countryside?
Capital
Land
Labor
Wealth
Which of the following is a result of the growth of the industrialization and the textile (cloth) industry and factories in Great Britain?
There were fewer farms in great Britain
Population growth in rural areas increased and population in cities decreased.
The cottage (homemade goods) industry no longer existed because textile factories could make goods cheaper and faster
The decreased production of goods in factories so the textile /cottage industries could survive
Children were given some of the most dangerous jobs during the Industrial Revolution because…?
They had quicker reflexes so they did not get hurt when they were working with dangerous machines
No one else would take the jobs they were offered
They were small enough to fit under machines where the most dangerous jobs were and if they were hurt they could be easily replaced
Children would go on strike when they were forced to work in dangerous or unpleasant conditions
How did the Industrial Revolution change the way we create goods? Choose the BEST answer
Made fewer products
Made more products from home
Made better quality products
Mass production & cheaper goods
