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Industrialrevolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Those who manage and assume the financial risk of new businesses | Entrepreneurs |
| Utopian socialist who set up a model community in New Laanark, Scotland | Jeremy Bentham |
| A British philosopher and economist who advocated utilitarianism | Robert Owen |
| The working class | Proletariat |
| The movement of people to cities | Urbanization |
| A private toll road | Turnpike |
| A drug that prevents pain during surgery, patented by a dentist | Anesthetic |
| An apartment building for the working class | Tenement |
| Improved the steam engine in the late 1700s | James Watt |
| During the Industrial Revolution, life changed and what basic way? | People migrated from rural areas to cities |
| The cotton gin was a machine that could | Separate seeds from raw cotton |
| The first factories developed and what industry | Textiles |
| The luddites were a | Labor organization |
| In the early 1700s, Abraham Darby's experiments led him to | Produce less expensive, better â quality iron |
| Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because | Disease was a natural means of population control |
| Which of the following best describes David Ricardo's "Iron law of wages?" | Wage increase will not raise the standard of living of poor families |
| The greatest happiness for the greatest number was a goal of | Utilitarianism |
| German socialist formed a social democracy in the late 1860s in order to transition gradually | From capitalism to socialism |
| Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it | Created prosperity for a few and poverty for many |
| A business organization in areas such as shipping mining or factories | Enterprise |
| Land enclosure in the 1600s and 1700s resulted in | Larger farms |
| Abraham Darby made better quality and iron by | Using charcoal to smelt the iron |
| Steam became an efficient power source because of improvements made by | James watt |
| Th slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in Britain by | Bringing in investment capital |
| The development of steam power enabled the growth of | Railroads |
| In what way were railroads an improvement over canals | Railroads did not have to follow the course of a river |
| The putting-out system was a method of | Producing cloth in individual homes |
| The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the | Working class |
| Laws called "factory acts" were passed in the early 1800s to | Reform child labor |
| Most early factory workers were women because | Employers could pay women less than men |
| Which of the following was a long-term result of the industrial revolution | A general rise in the standard of living |
| According to Laissez-faire economists the cure for poverty was | An unrestricted free market |
| Jeremy Bentham believed that | Laws should be judged by whether they bring more pleasure than pain. |
| According to socialists the solution to poverty and injustice was | Shared ownership by the people of the means of production |
| Which group established communities where all work is shared and all property is owned in common | Utopians |
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