A list of Jeopardy terms relating to the Industrial Revolution
19204758 | Textile Industry | Industry where the Industrial Revolution began | 0 | |
19204759 | Cottage Industry (within their dwellings) | Where workers made cloth before the Industrial Revolurtion | 1 | |
19204760 | Rivers, Streams | Factories were located next to these. | 2 | |
19204761 | Factories | Where workers worked, after the Industrial Revolution began. | 3 | |
19204762 | Cotton Gin | Cotton-cleaning machine that dramatically increased cotton production | 4 | |
19204763 | Flying Shuttle | Weaving machine invented in 1733 that doubled a weaver's daily output | 5 | |
19204764 | Spinning Jenny | Spinning machine of 1764 named after the inventor's daughter | 6 | |
19204765 | James Watt | Scottish engineer who improved the steam engine | 7 | |
19204766 | Steam | This replaced water as the major source of power. | 8 | |
19204767 | Eli Whitney | American inventor of the cotton-cleaning machine | 9 | |
19204768 | Mass Production | Manufacture of standard good in large quantities | 10 | |
19204769 | Interchangeable Parts | Parts that fit any example of a particular product | 11 | |
19204770 | Henry Bessemer | Englishman who found how to make steel from iron | 12 | |
19204771 | Steel | Material that replaced iron in machines | 13 | |
19204772 | Coal | Material that replaced charcoal for smelting iron | 14 | |
19204773 | Cyrus McCormick | American inventor of the mechanical reaper | 15 | |
19204774 | Enclosure System | Fencing off of formerly common land in England | 16 | |
19204775 | John Key | Inventor of the weaving machine | 17 | |
19204776 | James Hargreaves | Inventor of the spinning machine | 18 | |
19204777 | Thomas Newcomen | English engineer who developed the first practical steam engine | 19 | |
19204778 | Richard Arkwright | English inventor of the water frame for spinning | 20 | |
19204779 | Power Loom | Weaving machine invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785 | 21 | |
19204780 | Steam | Type of power that replaced wind on ships | 22 | |
19204781 | Robert Fulton | American developer of the first successful steamboat | 23 | |
19204782 | Canals | Waterways built to connect cities and rivers | 24 | |
19204783 | Barges | Flat-bottomed boat used on canals | 25 | |
19204784 | Railroads | The Industrial Revolution's chief means of land transportation | 26 | |
19204785 | Morse Code | Morse's system of dots and dashes | 27 | |
19204786 | Samuel Morse | American who developed the telegraph | 28 | |
19204787 | Macadam Roads | Improved roads developed by the Scot John McAdam | 29 | |
19204788 | Locks | Devices that control the level of water in canals | 30 | |
19204789 | Clermont | Fulton's famous steamboat | 31 | |
19204790 | Telegraph | Invention that sent electrical impulses over wire | 32 | |
19204791 | Cables | Heavily insulated communications wires laid underwater | 33 | |
19204792 | Raw Materials, Finished Goods | Improved transportation was necessary to move these items | 34 | |
19204793 | Horse, Cart | Chief means of land transportation before the Industrial Revolution | 35 | |
19204794 | Locomotives | Steam engines on wheels that ran on rails | 36 | |
19204795 | Automobile | New form of personal transportation that first hit the roads in the late 1800s | 37 | |
19204796 | Great Western | Steamboat that crossed the Atlantic in 1838 | 38 | |
19204797 | George Stephenson | English engineer who won a locomotive-building contest | 39 | |
19204798 | Rocket | Speedy locomotive that started an English railroad-building boom | 40 | |
19204799 | Alessandro Volta | Italian who built the first electric battery | 41 | |
19204800 | Cyrus Field | American responsible for laying the trans-Atlantic cable | 42 | |
19204801 | Michael Faraday | Englishman who produced electricity with a magnet | 43 | |
19204802 | Middle Class | Class that increased and gained political power during the Industrial Revolution | 44 | |
19204803 | Proletariat (Industrial Working Class) | Class created by the Industrial Revolution | 45 | |
19204804 | Children | Group of society that had to work along with adults | 46 | |
19204805 | Cities | Centers of population that grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution | 47 | |
19204806 | Going to school and playing | Working-class children had no time for either of these two activities. | 48 | |
19204807 | Population Growth | Increase in the number of people | 49 | |
19204808 | Noisy, Dirty, Dangerous, Uncomfortable | Working conditions in factories | 50 | |
19204809 | Women, Children | Workers who were paid lower wages | 51 | |
19204810 | Their Labor | What the Proletariat had to sell in order to live | 52 | |
19204811 | Farm Workers ( Self-employed Workers ) | Type of worker that decreased | 53 | |
19204812 | Managers | New groups that ran the factories, neither owners nor laborers | 54 | |
19204813 | Move their homes | Workers often had to do this to be near the factories. | 55 | |
19204814 | Unskilled Labor | Type of labor most in demand at factories | 56 | |
19204815 | Unemployment | Great fear of urban factory workers | 57 | |
19204816 | Polluted | Condition of air and water in cities | 58 | |
19204817 | Aristocracy | Social class that lost power as the Industrial Revolution continued | 59 | |
19204818 | Factories | Cities grew around these. | 60 | |
19204819 | 12 - 16 Hours | Average length of the industrial working day | 61 | |
19204820 | 6 - 7 Days | Normal length of the Industrial working week | 62 | |
19204821 | Tenements | Buildings that housed many people | 63 | |
19204822 | Capitalists | People who owned the means of production | 64 | |
19204823 | Child Labor | Type of labor limited by early reform laws | 65 | |
19204824 | Trade Unions | Workers' associations allowed in England after 1824 | 66 | |
19204825 | Strikes | Refusals to work in order to gain demands | 67 | |
19204826 | Charles Dickens | Famous English novelist who described the terrible working conditions | 68 | |
19204827 | 10 Hours | New, shorter workday for textile mills | 69 | |
19204828 | Collective Bargaining | Negotiating by unions and management | 70 | |
19204829 | Cheap Factory Goods | Living standards improved when these became available to workers. | 71 | |
19204830 | Aristocracy | Social class that supported factory workers against owners | 72 | |
19204831 | Socialism | System in which the public owed the means of production | 73 | |
19204832 | Utopian Socialists | Socialists who designed model communities | 74 | |
19204833 | Robert Owen | Welsh socialist who established a utopian community for his factory workers | 75 | |
19204834 | Karl Marx | Developer of "scientific socialism" | 76 | |
19204835 | The Communist Manifesto | Marx's famous pamphlet | 77 | |
19204836 | Bourgeoisie, Proletariats | Groups that were in opposition under capitalism, according to Marx | 78 | |
19204837 | Laissez-Faire | Economic theory meaning "let do" favored by business owners | 79 | |
19204838 | Thomas Malthus | Englishman who wrote about increasing population | 80 | |
19204839 | David Ricardo | English businessman who wrote that working class poverty was unavoidable | 81 | |
19204840 | John Stuart Mill | English philosopher who wrote that a government should promote social welfare | 82 | |
19204841 | New Lanark | Owen's utopian factory community in Scotland | 83 | |
19204842 | Friedrich Engels | Marx's co-author | 84 | |
19204843 | Das Kapital | Marx's study of capitalism | 85 |