| A | B |
|---|
| revolution | means change |
| Industrial Revolution | change from man/animal power to machine power |
| demographics | description of living situations |
| yeoman | poor tenant (renting) farmer |
| gentry | landed upper middle class |
| village commons | public lands previously opened to all |
| wattle and daub | construction of yeoman buildings |
| domestic system | industry done in your home |
| factory system | large-scale production done under one roof |
| weaver | makes cloth |
| spinner | makes thread or yarn |
| fuller | cleans, shapes cloth |
| enclosure movement | wanted more productive farming using modern techniques |
| 5 factors needed for Industrial Revolution | capital, natural resources, governmental support, labor, food surplus |
| patent | protection to insure income for entrepreneur |
| flying shuttle | greatly increased weaving speed |
| spinning jenny | greatly increased thread-making |
| spinning mule | one thread 56.8 miles long from one pound of cotton |
| cotton gin, interchangeable parts | inventions of Eli Whitney |
| steel | made from iron and coal |
| Bessemer process | air blast on molten iron to make better steel |
| macadam roads | first paved roads |
| canal | man-made river |
| England (Gt. Britain) | home of first industrial revolution |
| Samuel Slater | carried knowledge of textile plant to USA illegally |
| industrial capitalism | economic system of continual reinvesting profits to expand production |
| mass production | making many identical goods cheaply |
| Frederick Taylor | creator of industrial efficiency |
| Henry Ford | developed assembly line |
| partnership | one or a few men who shared costs and profits from production |
| corporation | business organization owned by stockholders to share risks between many shareholders |
| depression | bank failures; widespread unemployment |
| telegraph & Morse code | invention of Samuel Morse |
| Marconi | developed radio |
| Alexander G. Bell | invented telephone |
| Thomas Edison | invented phonograph & lightbulb |
| Rudolf Diesel | developed oil-burning combustion engine |
| Wright brothers | invented airplane |
| dumbbell housing | award winning tenement houses for the poor in New York City |
| labor unions | workers' organizations who fought for rights of workers |
| blacklist | company action to punish worker troublemakers |
| scab | term used to apply to a strikebreaker |
| collective bargaining | working out an agreement between union representative and company representatives |
