Industrial revolution

• Industrial Revolution


  A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
• Factory Acts


  English laws passed from 1802 to 1833 that limited the workday of child laborers and set minimum hygiene and safety requirements
• Luddites


  group of workers who broke into factories and destroyed machinery
• Industrialization


  The development of industries for the machine production of goods.
• factors of production


  Land, labor, and capital; the three groups of resources that are used to make all goods and services
• The Great Famine


  The result of four years of potato crop failure in the late 1840s in Ireland, a country that had grown dependent on potatoes as a dietary staple.
• Great Exhibition of 1851


  The world's first industrial fair, organized as a symbol of British industrial domination.
• Agricultural Revolution


  A time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow made farming easier and faster. The production of food rose dramatically.
• Crop Rotation


  The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
• Richard Arkwright's Water Frame

  This was a new spinning machine powered by water or horse. This combined with Samuel Crompton's mule helped further increase yarn production.
• The Amalgamated Society of Engineers

  The largest and most successful trade union created in 1851 which provided generous unemployment benefits in return for a small weekly payment. One of the first craft unions.
• The Crystal Palace


  The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London; an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.
• Union


  A worker association that bargains with employers over wages, benefits, and working conditions
• Strikes


  The unions' method for having their demands met. Workers stop working until the conditions are met. It is a very effective form of attack.
• Suffrage


  the right to vote in political elections
• Assembly Line


  In a factory, an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product.
• James Hargreaves


  Invented the Spinning Jenny
• George Stephenson


  He developed the Rocket
• Cottage Industry


  The network of weaving cotton at home to make extra money
• Henry Bessemer


  He invented the process for making steel
• John Kay


  He invented the Flying Shuttle.
• John Watt


  He improved the Steam Engine
• Richard Trevithick


  He invented the Steam Engine
• Eli Whitney


  He invented the cotton gin
• Edwin Chadwick


  Social reformer and know for his work to reform Poor Laws and improve sanitation
• Robert Owen


  Industrialist know for his model textile factory and village in Scotland