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The Industrial Revolution
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10th Grade
04/03/2007

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Industry where the Industrial Revolution began
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the textile industry
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Where workers made cloth before the Industrial Revolurtion
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in their own cottages (at home)
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Factories were located next to these.
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rivers or streams
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Where workers worked, after the Industrial Revolution began.
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factories
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Cotton-cleaning machine that dramatically increased cotton production
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the cotton gin
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Weaving machine invented in 1733 that doubled a weaver's daily output
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the flying shuttle
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Spinning machine of 1764 named after the inventor's daughter
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the spinning jenny
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Scottish engineer who improved the steam engine
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James Watt
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This replaced water as the major source of power.
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steam
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American inventor of the cotton-cleaning machine
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Eli Whitney
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Manufacture of standard good in large quantities
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mass production
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Parts that fit any example of a particular product
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interchangeable parts
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Englishman who found how to make steel from iron
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Henry Bessemer
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Material that replaced iron in machines
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steel
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Material that replaced charcoal for smelting iron
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coal
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American inventor of the mechanical reaper
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Cyrus McCormick
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Fencing off of formerly common land in England
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the enclosure system
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Inventor of the weaving machine
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John Key
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Inventor of the spinning machine
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James Hargreaves
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English engineer who developed the first practical steam engine
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Thomas Newcomen
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English inventor of the water frame for spinning
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Richard Arkwright
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Weaving machine invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785
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the power loom
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Tyoe of power that replaced wind on ships
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steam
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American developer of the first successful steamboat
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Robert Fulton
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Waterways built to connect cities and rivers
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canals
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Flat-bottomed boat used on canals
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barges
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The Industrial Revolution's chief means of land transportation
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railroads
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Morse's system of dots and dashes
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Morse Code
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American who developed the telegraph
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Samuel Morse
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Improved roads developed by the Scot John McAdam
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macadam roads
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Devices that control the level of water in canals
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locks
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Fulton's famous steamboat
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the Clermont
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Invention that sent electrical impulses over wire
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the telegraph
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Heavily insultated communications wires laid underwater
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cables
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Improved transportation was necessary to move these items
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raw materials and finished goods
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Chief means of land transportation before the Industrial Revolution
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by horse or cart (over roads)
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Steam engines on wheels that ran on rails
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locomotives
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New form of personal transportation that first hit the roads in the late 1800s
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the automobile
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Steamboat that crossed the Atlantic in 1838
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the Great Western
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English engineer who won a locomotive-building contest
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George Stephenson
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Speedy locomotive that started an English railroad-building boom
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the Rocket
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Italian who built the first electric battery
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Alessandro Volta
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American responsible for laying the trans-Atlantic cable
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Cyrus Field
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Englishman who produced electricity with a magnet
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Michael Faraday
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Class that increased and gained political power during the Industrial Revolution
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the middle class
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Class created by the Industrial Revolution
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the industrial working class (proletariat)
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Group of society that had to work along with adults
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children
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Centers of population that grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution
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cities
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Working-class children had no time for either of these two activities.
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going to school and playing
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Increase in the number of people
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population growth
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Working conditions in factories
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noisy, dirty, dangerous, uncomfortable
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Workers who were paid lower wages
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women and children
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What the Proletariat had to sell in order to live
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their labor
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Type of worker that decreased
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farm workers (self-employed workers)
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New groups that ran the factories, neither owners nor laborers
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managers
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Workers often had to do this to be near the factories.
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move their homes
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Type of labor most in demand at factories
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unskilled labor
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Great fear of urban factory workers
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unemployment
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Condition of air and water in cities
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polluted
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Social class that lost power as the Industrial Revolution continued
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the aristocracy (upper classes)
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Cities grew around these.
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factories
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Average length of the industrial working day
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12-16 hours
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Normal length of the Industrial working week
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6 to 7 days
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Buildings that housed many people
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tenements
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People who owned the means of production
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capitalists
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Type of labor limited by early reform laws
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child labor
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Workers' associations allowed in England after 1824
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trade unions
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Refusals to work in order to gain demands
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strikes
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Famous English novelist who described the terrible working conditions
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Charles Dickens
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New, shorter workday for textile mills
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10 hours
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Negotiating by unions and management
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collective bargaining
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Living standards improved when these became available to workers.
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chgeap factory (consumer) goods
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Social class that supported factory workers against owners
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the aristocracy
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System in which the public owed the means of production
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socialism
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Socialists who designed model communities
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Utopian socialists
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Welsh socialist who established a utopian community for his factory workers
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Robert Owen
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Developer of "scientific socialism"
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Karl Marx
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Marx's famous pamphlet
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The Communist Manifesto
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Groups that were in opposition under capitalism, according to Marx
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the bourgeoisie (capitalists) vs. the Proletariat (workers)
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Economic theory meaning "let do" favored by business owners
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laissez-faire
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Englishman who wrote about increasing population
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Thomas Malthus
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English businessman who wrote that working class poverty was unavoidable
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David Ricardo
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English philosopher who wrote that a government should promote social welfare
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John Stuart Mill
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Owen's utopian factory community in Scotland
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New Lanark
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Marx's co-author
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Friedrich Engels
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Marx's study of capitalism
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Das Kapital
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