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Industrial VocabAmanda Eaves
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Industrial Revolution
• Was from 1750 to 1850
• Began in Britain but went through all the European
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What is Urbanization• Urbanization is when people move from their
own homes on a farm to a home in the city for a job so that they don’t have to rely on themselves
• A business or factory in someones own home
• There was a migration of people from rural to urban during the Industrial Revolution
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Agricultural Revolution
• Growing different types of crops to keep the land fertile
• The agricultural revolution led to the industrial revolution because it pushed for the changes in the industries. In other words people wanted a easier way to do things and so the industrial revolution began.
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Textiles
• Textiles were the first industry to boom
• Textiles are anything made of cloth such as clothing
• Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
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Steam Engine
• James Watt improved the Steam Engine
• Invented in 1755
• Provided better transportation for absolutely anything
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Bessemer Process
• The Bessemer Process was a new way to make steel
• Henry Bessemer Created the Bessemer Process
• It made steel cheaper
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Pasteurization
• Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and Microbiologist
• He created pasteurization which killed bacteria in milk and made milk safer to drink
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Thomas Edison• Edison invented lots of
things including talking dolls, phonograph, and electric lights
• Had 1,093 patents in the U.S. alone
• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison
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Romanticism• Romanticism is a movement in the
arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual
• Charles Dickens and Mary Shelly were writers during that time period
• It arose as a reaction to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution
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