Industrialization Spreads

Flashcards about the spread of industrialization.

Geography and were important for industrialization.

Fast-flowing rivers, coal, and iron ore deposits.

A supply of was important for industrialization.

Farm workers and immigrants.

After Britain attempted to blockade the U.S., the U.S. became .

Self-sufficient.

, a young British mill worker, emigrated to the U.S. and built a spinning machine from memory.

Samuel Slater

Samuel Slater is known as the .

Father of American Industry

In 1794, opened the first factory that only produced one part of the finished cloth.

Moses Brown

In 1813, and four other investors mechanized every stage in the manufacture of cloth.

Francis Cabot Lowell

A solution to getting more people to move to factories was hiring entire families and .

Dividing the factory work into simple tasks.

Hiring entire families and dividing the Factory work into simple tasks was called the .

Rhode Island System

is the system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.

Mass production

are identical machine-made parts.

Interchangeable parts

An changed the way people worked in factories - the product moves from worker to worker, as each person performs a step in the manufacturing process.

Assembly line

means having different workers do different tasks.

Division of labor

is a society in which people rely on one another for the resources, goods, and services they need.

Economic interdependence

Causes of the Second Industrial Revolution included .

Natural resources, new inventions, increased urban population, and railroads.

are businesses owned by stockholders.

Corporations

The British miracle was the result of .

Britain's profitable new methods of manufacturing goods.

was the first to industrialize on the European continent.

Belgium

Some impacts of industrialization include .

Expanded market economy, shifted balance of power, increased economic competition, and widened wealth gap.

is the policy of extending one country's rule over many other lands.

Imperialism