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Industrial Revolution

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