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What is an urban area?
Developed area, high population, city
What is a rural area?
Country side, low population, agricultural
What impact did the Agricultural Revolution have on the population which caused people to move from the rural area to the cities?
More food, growth of population, less people needed to cultivate, people moved to cities to look for jobs
Name a positive effect of the Industrial Revolution
Increase of wealth, mass production of goods
Name a negative effect of the Industrial Revolution
Pollution, overcrowding, child labor etc.
Describe the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Vary
What is a union?
A union is an organization that speaks for the workers it represents.
What is collective barganing?
negotiations, led by the union, to resolve disputes between workers and employers.
What is a strike?
when members refuse to work until their demands are met
Why did Unions form during the Industrial Revolution? In response to what?
Better Wages Reasonable Hours Safe Work Conditions Stop Child Labor
Industrialization was the movement from human to (...) labor.
Machine
What is a natural resource? Name an example.
resources that come from the earth such as (coal and iron) and raw materials such as (cotton, sugar, tobacco, etc)
What Natural Resource helped to kick start the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain?
Coal
What is Mass Production?
The production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
Describe the living conditions of people living in the cities during the IR
Overcrowded Unsanitary Spread of Diseases: Typhoid, Smallpox, and Tuberculosis were common Polluted
What is capitalism?
an economic and political system in which trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
