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W His 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Industrial Revolution began in... | England in the mid 1700's |
| The Industrial Revolution increased the output of what? | Machine-made goods |
| Large farm fields enclosed by fences or hedges | Enclosures |
| Enclosures allowed experimentation with... | New agricultural methods |
| Switch crops each year to avoid depleting the soil | Crop rotation |
| Result of allowing only the best livestock to breed | Improved food supply |
| Move to machine production of goods | Industrialization |
| Britian's natural resources | Iron, coal, river harbors |
| Inventions that allowed weavers to work faster | Flying shuttles, spinning jenny, water frame |
| Inventions that improve the quality and the time it takes to spin thread, and weave it into fabric | Power loom, spinning mule |
| Buildings that contain machinery for manufacturing | Factories |
| Invention that boosts the production of clean cotton to meet British demand | Cotton gin |
| Invention developed to meet the need for cheaper, convenient power | Watt's steam engine |
| Financed the steam engine | Matthew Boulton |
| An organizer and manager that takes business risks | Entrepreneur |
| First steamboat | Clermont |
| Builder of first steamboat | Robert Fulton |
| England added this to improve its water transportation system | Canals |
| Who builds the first steam-driven locomotive in 1804? | Richard Trevithick |
| Who builds the worlds first railroad line in 1825? | George Stephenson |
| Entrepreneurs build a railrod from Liverpool to Manchester called the .... | Liverpool-Manchester Railroad |
| The Rocket | The fastest locomotive - built by Stephenson 1829 |
| During the industrial revolution, what mode of transportation provides an inexpensive way to transport materials and finished goods | Railroad |
| Why do people move from the country into the cities in the late 1700's early 1800's? | Higher paying factory jobs |
| City-building and movement of people to cities | Urbanization |
| London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool | British industial cities |
| Length of average work day | 14 hour, 6 days a week |
| Life span of city dweller | 17 yrs |
| What lacked sanitary and building codes? | Rapidly growing cities |
| Cities were without these. | Adequate housing, educational systems, police protection |
| Which groups of people were members of the middle class | Skilled workers, merchants, rich farmers, professionals |
| This group of people's living and working conditions were not improved by the Industrial Revolution. | The Working class |
| Group of people who destroyed machines that put them out of work. | Luddites |
| A serious problem, caused by unemployed workers rioting | Mobs |
| Creates jobs, enriches nation, encourages technological progress, opportunity of better clothing, housing and food | Immediate results of Industrial Revolution |
| Improved living and working conditions still evident today | Long Term Effects of Industrial Revolution |
| This was paid for by increased government tax revenues | Urban improvements |
| Here children as young as 6 work in factories; many are injured while they work. | Manchester, England |
| Restricts working age and length of hours | 1819 Factory Act |
| When does industrialization pick up momentum in the United States? | During the post-Civil War technology boom |
| Why does cities like Chicago expand rapidly during the post-Civil War technology boom? | Located on a railroad |
| Limited ownership rights in a company, sold to raise money | Stocks |
| Company owned by stock holders who share profits, not the debts | Corporation |
| English textile worker who builds textile mill in the U.S. | Samuel Slater |
| Location of mechanized textile center built by Slater | Lowell, Massachutes |
| Name two events that disrupted Europe's early 19th century economic growth | Revolution and Napoleonic wars |
| Where did British worker start a company with smuggled machine plans? | Belgium |
| Which European country developed spinning? | Bohemia |
| Which region in Europe mechanized the spinning of silk into textiles? | Northern Italy |
| Which European country industrialized its agricultural economy? | France |
| Why did European counties, the U.S. and Japan sieze colonies? | For thier natural resources |
| What spreads due to the need for raw materials, and new markets to sell goods? | Imperialism |
| Industrialization creates economic power for these countries. | European countries and the United States |
| Economic policy of not interfering with businesses | Laissez-faire |
| Defender of free markets and author of "The Wealth of Nations" | Adam Smith |
| Adam Smith believed... | Economic liberty guaranteed economic progress |
| The natural laws of Economics | Self-interest, competition, supply and demand |
| System of privately owned businesses seeking profit | Capitalism |
| Thinks population grows faster than the food supply? | Thomas Malthus |
| If this doesn't happen misery and poverty result | War and epidemic kill off extra people |
| Who envisions a permanent, poor underclass providing cheap labor | David Ricardo |
| A radical form of socialism | Marxism |
| German journalist who proposes a radical form of socialism | Karl Marx |
| In Capitalism, the name given to the "haves", the employers of people | Bourgeoisie |
| In Capitalism, the name given to the "have-nots", the workers | proletariats |
| The Communist Manifesto | A 23 page pamphlet written by Karl Max and Friedrich Engels arguing that human societies have always been divided into warring classes. |
| The government should promote the greatest good for the greatest number of people | Utilitarianism |
| Who favors regulation to help workers spread wealth | John Stuart Mill |
| Who belives people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions on the basis of the usefulness | Jeremy Bentham |
| Utopian community founded by Robert Ownes | Harmony, Indiana |
| Description of utopian community | improved working conditions, cheap housing to rent |
| Factors of production are owned by the people, and operated for the benefit of all | Socialism |
| In theory, Socialism can... | Ends poverty, and bring equality to all |
| A society where people own and share the means of production | Communism |
| Occurs when associations formed by laborers work together for change | Unionization |
| Unions negotiate for this for it's members | Better pay, better working conditions for it's members |
| To call a work stoppage-to pressure owners to listen to union representatives demands | Strike |
| Union goals | higher wages, shorter hours, improved working conditions |
| Why did the British and the United States pass reform laws? | To stop the worst abuses of industrialization |
| 1842 Mines Act in Britian | Stopped women, and children from working underground |
| Workday for British women, and children limited to 10 hours | 1847 |
| U.S. ends child labor, sets maximum hours for workers | 1904 |
| Slavery ends in U.S. | 1865 |
| Women persue economic and social rights | 1848 |
| The International Council for Women with world wide membership was founded in... | 1888 |
| Who established free public schools in Europe? | Reformers in the late 1800's |
| By the 1850's it was common to find these in the United States | Public schools |
| Reformers help end slavery in British empire | 1833 |
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