Industrial Revolution

2. 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.
3. sovereignty A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
8. system Early industrial labor system in which workers produced goods at home
9. An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
10. labor Children were viewed as laborers throughout the 19th century. Many children worked on farms, small businesses, mills and factories.

1. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds.
4. Communication by transmitting signals over a wire
5. system method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building
6. engine 1760's; James Watt; engine powered by steam that could pump water from mines 3X as quickly as previous engines
7. gin A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793