Industrial Revolution AP

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• Russia

• United States

• Germany

• Great Britain

This concentrated labor in a single location and led to the division of labor

• domestic system

• cottage industry

• factory system

• globalization

Invented the steam engine

• Thomas Edison

• James Watt

• James Hargreaves

• Henry Bessemer

Invented a process for cheaply mass producing steel

• Henry Bessemer

• Thomas Edison

• Eli Whitney

• James Hargreaves

The first industry to be mechanized

• textiles

• precision machinery

• canned food

• pencils

The Enclosure Movement forced poor English peasants off their land, with many moving to cities to find work.

• True

• False

The invention of the cotton gin led to a decrease in slavery in the United States.

• True

• False

Invented the smallpox vaccine

• Aristotle

• Marie Curie

• Edward Jenner

• Louis Pasteur

Germ theory of disease

• Louis Pasteur

• Edward Jenner

• James Hargreaves

• Adam Smith

A major goal of labor unions was _________.

• strikes

• collective bargaining

• longer hours

• communist revolution