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  • 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 was the Abolitionist Movement?
    the social and political effort to end slavery everywhere.
  • 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)
  • Name a negative effect of the Industrial Revolution
    Pollution, overcrowding, child labor etc.
  • Why did Unions form during the Industrial Revolution? In response to what?
    Better Wages Reasonable Hours Safe Work Conditions Stop Child Labor
  • Was it morals, economics, or activism that finally made abolition a reality? Support Answer.
    Vary
  • Describe one thing that would happen to slaves upon arrival
    Vary
  • What is a union?
    A union is an organization that speaks for the workers it represents.
  • 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
  • What is capital? (Not a city)
    money to invest in technology, factories, or machines
  • What did Eli Whitney invent?
    Cotton Gin
  • Where did the middle passage originate? In what country did it start?
    Africa
  • What Natural Resource helped to kick start the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain?
    Coal
  • Describe the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    Vary
  • What is an urban area?
    Developed area, high population, city
  • What is collective barganing?
    negotiations, led by the union, to resolve disputes between workers and employers.
  • 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
  • Describe the living conditions of slaves
    vary
  • What is a strike?
    when members refuse to work until their demands are met
  • What is Mass Production?
    The production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • Name a positive effect of the Industrial Revolution
    Increase of wealth, mass production of goods
  • What was one argument in favor of slavery?
    Vary
  • What is a rural area?
    Country side, low population, agricultural
  • Industrialization was the movement from human to (...) labor.
    Machine
  • Describe the Triangular Trade Route
    The Triangular Trade Route was a trading system in the 15th and 16th century. Europe to Africa, to the Americas.
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