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  • What IR invention could you not live without today?
    typewriter, telephone, railroad, boat, etc.
  • Name an important invention from the Industrial Revolution.
    x
  • Because of steamships, what were people able to trade for the first time?
    Food! People were able to keep it cold!
  • What new ways was electricity used?
    Light bulbs, record players, motion picture
  • What is a corporation?
    a business owned by several people
  • What is globalization?
    The connection of economics, politics, and culture between countries across the world.
  • What kind of buildings were starting to be built?
    Modern style
    Trenches
    Underground homes
    Skyscrapers
  • The ability to make a large number of the same type of good is called ____________________.
    mass production
  • What metal was used the most during the IR?
    Steel
  • As a result of industrialization, many people moved from
    farms to cities
  • How did unions affect workers?
    organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions
  • What new thing did people start investing in?
    Foreign business
  • Which of the following is an example of division of labor?
    Jenna cuts cloth, and Craig sews seams.
    Anthony built the car on his own.
    Daniel and Clara both make toy cars.
    Gina teaches Clarke how to make a pair of shoes.
  • How would division of labor speed up production?
    It simplified what each person did
  • Competition between companies around the world led to
    lower productivity
    lower prices
    fewer corporations
  • How did the assembly line change work for people?
    gave them one thing to specialize in, cut the number of workers required and reduced the time it took to produce things
  • What were factory conditions like?
    x
  • How did companies get enough money to pay workers?
    Becoming corporations
  • What was one of the United's States main exports?
    Coal, oil, engines
  • Why is global trade important?
    x
  • What happened to cities because of the IR?
    first urbanization, then they got overcrowded!
  • What were railroads and steamboats used for?
    Trade and travel
  • Why was the sewing machine important?
    It influenced the role and status of women, revolutionized the garment trade, and modernized other businesses such as shoemaking and upholstery.
  • What did the IR do to prices of goods?
    Lowered them!
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