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Industrial Revolution | Advances in industry, business, transportation, and communications is called the...
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Great Britain | The first stages of the Industrial Revolution took place in communities in...
| Seed Drill | Invented by Jethro Tull, this farm machine plants seeds in straight rows.
| Unemployment | This happened because machines made farms more productive and farmers needed fewer workers.
| Factors of production | These are items needed to make industry grow: land, natural resources, workers, and capital.
| Capital | This is a word to describe money and tools needed to make a product.
| Factories | Buildings to house workers and their equipment.
| Resources | This word describes Great Britain's coal, iron ore, and rivers.
| Water | Richard Arkwright created a spinning machine powered by this.
| Loom | Edmund Cartwright's invention was water powered and wove cloth.
| Water Power | Factories can use this type of power only if they are by a stream, river, waterfall, or dam.
| Steam Engine | James Watt's modern version of this invention boils water and uses steam to do the work.
| Older/skilled | This group of people were put out of work because young unskilled people took their place.
| United States | The Industrial Revolution spread quickly to this country.
| Transportation | To make this faster, stone-topped roads, canals, and steam engines were used.
| Steamboat | An American named Robert Fulton invented this which enabled a fast crossing of the Atlantic.
| Morse Code | An American named Samuel F.B. Morse invented the telegraph machine that sends electrical current through a wire to send messages, using this type of communication that he also invented.
| Industrial Age | The age of new inventions.
| Capitalism | This economic system has individuals or companies that control the factors of production.
| Assembly Line | This method of production made production times a lot faster, and each worker only had one job to do.
| Railways | This word describes steam locomotives that ran on rails all over Europe and the United States.
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