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Industrial Revolution

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