Industrial Revolution Vocabulary Inventions/Advancements City Life Miscellaneous
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Industrial Revolution
Term that means a period of time when new inventions were created and machines improved peoples' living
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urbanization
The movement of people to cities
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Putting-out System
Raw cotton was distributed to peasant families who spun it into thread and then wove the thread into cloth in their own homes
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Apartment buildings
Most people that moved to cities lived in what?
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Sojourner Truth
"Ain't I a Woman?"
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Women and Children
Besides men, what two groups were forced to work during the Industrial Revolution?
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tenement
Multistory buildings divided into apartments
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Turnpike
Private roads built by entrepreneurs who charged travelers a toll to use them
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Drains
City streets had not _________ to carry away water or garbage
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Britain
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
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Farmers
Before the Industrial Revolution, most people worked as...
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suffrage
Right to vote
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Cotton Gin
Separated the seeds from the raw cotton at a fast rate
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Disease, overcrowding, adequate housing, no police protection
Problems people faced in their living conditions when they lived in cities during the Industrial Revolution
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Faster and cheaper
New machines during the Industrial Revolution allowed business to make products...
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Poor education, no communication, no transportation, famine, poverty
Problems citizens faced before the Industrial Revolution
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temperance movement
A campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
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Steam Engine
Powered by coal and used to pump water out of mines
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Urban Renewal
The rebuilding of the poor areas of a city
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Long hours, unhealthy work conditions, serious injury, 6 day work weeks, little pay
Problems workers faced during the work day
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Late 1700s and the 1800s
Time period when the Industrial Revolution occurred
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proletariat
Working class
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Dynamo
Machine that generates electricity
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Louis Sullivan
Who was the American architect that pioneered the skyscraper
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"seen but not heard."
Middle class parents expected their children to be...






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