Please take 7 index cards. Please also have a divider out! Welcome! September 14, 2015 Day 5 Global 10 Donato / Harned Rm. 208 Please take 7 index cards. Please also have a divider out!
The Industrial Revolution Unit 1
Timeline First successful steamboat & first factories First photography Charles Darwin “Survival of the fittest”. 1760s 1830 1848 1807 1839 1859 James Watt Improves steam engine power! First railway opens in England. Communist Manifesto- Marx & Engels
Interchangeable Parts Unit 1 Vocabulary Mass Production Enclosure Labor Union Capital Means of Production Socialism Interchangeable Parts Standard of Living Urbanization Proletariat Laissez-faire Assembly Line Tenements
Means of Production The farms, factories, railways, and other large businesses that produced and distributed goods
Mass Production Creating a lot of goods cheaply
Proletariat Working class
Interchangeable Parts Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing
Assembly Line Industrial production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks
Communism An economic system in which the means of production is controlled by the government. Karl Marx- Father of Communism
Capitalism An economic system in which factories and businesses can be privately owned and operate to make a profit.
Enclosure The process of taking over and fencing off land
Capital Money to invest to make a profit
Laissez-faire “Hands-Off” Policy allowing business to operate with little or no government interference
Standard of Living One’s quality of life and the availability of necessities and comforts in society
Urbanization The movement of people to cities
Tenements Multistory buildings divided into crowded apartments
Labor Union Workers’ organization