Chapter 22 Industrial Revolution Vocab

Question 1

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

Answer 1

Eli Whitney

Question 2

Patented the first modern steam engine

Answer 2

James Watt

Question 3

Created the morse code

Answer 3

Samuel Morse

Question 4

Planting different crops each year.

Answer 4

Crop Rotation

Question 5

The spinning mill started the what

Answer 5

Factory System

Question 6

When power driven machines began to much of the work that people had done before.

Answer 6

Industrial Revolution

Question 7

Use of automatic machinery to increase production

Answer 7

Mechanization

Question 8

Cramped, shabby apartments where workers lived during the Industrial Revolution

Answer 8

Tenements

Question 9

Economic system in which individuals, instead of the government control the factors of production

Answer 9

Capitalism

Question 10

Complete control of the production or sale of a single good or service.

Answer 10

Monopoly

Question 11

Alternating periods of prosperity and decline

Answer 11

Business Cycle

Question 12

founder of Ford

Answer 12

Henry Ford

Question 13

Founder of the United States steel company

Answer 13

J.P. Morgan

Question 14

Belief that government should not interfere with the operations of business.

Answer 14

Laissez-Faire

Question 15

System in which economic forces work automatically and naturally, without mercantilism law and regulations

Answer 15

Free Enterprise

Question 16

Everything used to produce and exchange goods

Answer 16

Means of Production

Question 16

Process of negotiation between management and union representatives

Answer 16

Collective Bargaining

Question 17

Political and economic system in which the government owns the means of production

Answer 17

Socialism

Question 18

Utopian Socialist

Answer 18

Robert Owen