The Industrial Revolution Vocabulary Flashcards (warmup thursday)

Vocabulary flashcards covering key inventors, labor systems, concepts, and economic models from the Industrial Revolution study guides.

Industrial Revolution

The era when factories replaced work done in homes, and machines replaced hands in production.

Domestic System

A labor system in which the entire family worked to produce goods in the home.

James Watt

The inventor who invented the steam engine.

Henry Cort

Introduced a method of using coal to produce higher quality iron.

William Kelley and Henry Bessemer

Creators of the Bessemer process, which is a method to use iron to make steel.

Bessemer process

A method to use iron to make steel, created by William Kelley and Henry Bessemer.

Robert Fulton

The inventor who invented the steamboat.

Enclosure Movement

The movement that caused small farmers to move to the cities.

Capital

Money to invest, which enabled Great Britain to lead the way in the Industrial Revolution.

Entrepreneurs

Risk takers in the middle and upper classes who organized and managed Great Britain's growing industries.

Eli Whitney

The inventor who created the cotton gin and whose work led to interchangeable parts.

John Kay

The inventor who created the flying shuttle.

Edmund Cartwright

The inventor who created the power loom.

Factory System

An organized method of production that brought workers and machines together under the control of managers.

Division of labor

A system where each person does one task to make a product.

Frederick Taylor

The individual associated with scientific management.

Henry Ford

Developed the assembly line of factory production.

Capitalism

An economic system prominent during the growth of big industry.

Socialism

An economic system identified alongside capitalism and communism.

Communism

An economic system identified alongside capitalism and socialism.