Industrial revolution study Flashcards
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Henry Bessemer
Created a process to make steel cheaply and efficiently
Dynamo
First electric generator
Michael Faraday
Inventor of dynamo
Guglielmo Marconi
Invented the radio
Louis Pasteur
French biologist who linked between microbes and diseases
Stock
Shares of an company
Assembly line
increased productivity
interchangeable parts
mass produced parts, drove down prices
Corporation
Board of directors
Mutual aid society
Early form of insurance
Natural selection
A mechanism of evolution
Women’s suffrage
The right to vote
Social Darwinism
applied to society then misleads to racism
Labor unions
an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
Standard living
Middle class, people are comfortable
Where did the Industrial revolution spread after great britain?
France,Belgium,Germany, And U.S.
How come other countries were successful and some were not?
Some countries had foreign interference, political unrest.
What new types of transportation developed around 1900s?
Automobiles/Airplanes
What is the main reason for Europe’s population growth in the 1800s?
Hospitals became cleaner and sterilized their equipment, people in Europe became healthy washing themselves etc…
How did cities change in the late 1800s?
Cities became modern with shopping areas, movie theaters, zoos and more.
How did workers respond to harsh conditions of industrial life?
Formed mutual aid societies which was just early insurance so in case of an incident they would be covered.
What laws helped workers in the late 1800s?
By the late 1800s workers began to form unions to collectively bargain for higher wages and better working conditions.
Child labor was banned and free, compulsory education began
What were 3 social classes that existed in the late 1800s?
How did the assembly line affect the standard living.
Wealthy business owners , middle class professionals , lower class urban farmers.
significantly increasing productivity, reducing costs, and making consumer goods more accessible to a larger population.
Laissez-Faire
Hands off government approach
