| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
|---|---|---|
capital | arrow_right_alt | includes natural resources, access to water for transportation, or a physical location to build a business |
land | arrow_right_alt | workers, skilled and unskilled |
Entreprenuer | arrow_right_alt | money to invest, but in a broad sense can also be time or labor invested |
labor | arrow_right_alt | people willing to take a risk to start a business |
What are textiles?
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
|---|---|---|
Flying Shuttle | arrow_right_alt | machine that allowed one person to spin multiple strands of thread at one time. |
Spinning Jenny | arrow_right_alt | machine that allowed one person to weave cloth faster |
Why were the first factories built next to rivers?
Where did the first factories get their workers from?
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
|---|---|---|
Crompton's Mule | arrow_right_alt | first factory machine, spun a strong thick thread |
power loom or Impossible Machine | arrow_right_alt | first steam powered maching, made a fine, strong thread |
Water Frame | arrow_right_alt | steam powered loom, used to weave cloth |
Why was the steam engine important?
How did steamboats change the transportation of goods?
Find a picture/article from an early (1800s) steamboat disaster.
How did railroads impact the sale of farm products like meat, fruits and vegatables?
How did railroads change the way people lived and worked?
Why did coal become such an important resource during the Industrial Revolution?
Find an old newstory of a coal mine accident (1800s).
Look up early industrial factory accidents. What types of injuries were common in this time?
Describe or find a picture of white lunch disease.
Describe or find a punishment for workers used in early factories.
Describe the trend of work hours shown in this chart from 1850 to present times.
Which group was paid more in the Under 16 age groups?
Why do you think women made more when they were younger?
Why do you think males made more in the 22-46 year age ranges?
Find a quote from Charles Dicken's that might be used to describe the pictures of city life during the Industrail Revolution.
Should employers provide housing for their workers?
Why do you think factory owners build tenements for their workers?
If you were a factory owner who provided housing for workers, what kind of rules would you make for the people living and working under you?
Draw a picture of middle class people and poorer people during the Industrial Revolution. Make sure we can tell the difference between them.
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
|---|---|---|
labor | arrow_right_alt | upstairs people - rich and living in luxury |
capital | arrow_right_alt | downstairs people, poor, malnourished, miserable |
Who is guarding the door in this picture?
Why were unions formed?
What is the purpose of a strike?
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
|---|---|---|
American South | arrow_right_alt | first European country to industrialize after Britain |
American North | arrow_right_alt | mostly agricultrual, provided raw cotton for nothern factories |
Belgium | arrow_right_alt | good access to waterways, had investors that built factories |
Which country became a world industrial leader after its unification in the 1870s?
What was the goal of Japanese industrialization?
Why didn't Asian and African colonies industrialize in the 1800's?
New inventions and development of factories
Rapidly growing industry in the 1800s
Increased production and higher demand for raw materials
Growth of worldwide trade
Population explosion and expanding trade
Exploitation of mineral resources
Highly developed banking and investment system
Advances in transportation, agricullture and communication
Positive Economic Effect
Negative Economic Effect
Could be either
Increase in population of cities
Lack of city planning
Loss of family stability
Expansion of middle class
Harsh conditions for laborers, including children
Workers' progress versus laissez-faire economic attidudes
Improved standard of living
Creation of new jobs
Encouragment of technological progress
Postive Social Effects
Negative Social Effects
Could be either
Child labor laws to end abuses
Reformers urging equal distribution of wealth
Social reform movements, such as utilitarianism, utopianism, socialism and Marxism
Reform bills in Parliament and Congress
trade unions formed
Positive Political Effects
Negative Political Effects
Could be either
Where did the Industrial Revolution start?