Industrial Revolution

Question 1

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin

Answer 1

Britian

Question 2

What did the Industrial Revolution have a strong impact on

Answer 2

economics, politics, and safety

Question 3

What greatly increased the output of machine-made goods

Answer 3

The Industrial Revolution

Question 4

What was it called when large farm fields are enclosed by fences or hedges

Answer 4

Enclosures

Question 5

Who bought enclosed land, once owned by village farmers

Answer 5

wealthy landowners

Question 6

What did Enclosures allow

Answer 6

experimentation with new agricultural methods

Question 7

What is the switching of crops each year to avoid depleting the soil

Answer 7

crop rotation

Question 8

Why did livestock breeders only allow the best to breed

Answer 8

improve food supply

Question 9

What is the move to machine production of goods

Answer 9

Industrialization

Question 10

What natural resources did Britain have

Answer 10

coal, iron, rivers, and harbors

Question 11

What did the Expanding economy in Britain encourage

Answer 11

investment

Question 12

What is land, labor, and capital

Answer 12

factors of production

Question 13

What did weavers use to work faster

Answer 13

flying shuttle and spinning jenny

Question 14

What did the water frame use to drive spinning wheels

Answer 14

water power

Question 15

what is a spinning mule that sped up production

Answer 15

Power loom

Question 16

What are buildings that contain machinery for manufacturing

Answer 16

factories

Question 17

what boosted American cotton production to meet british demand

Answer 17

Cotton Gin

Question 18

Who developed the Steam Engine

Answer 18

James Watt

Question 19

Who is someone who organizes, manages, and takes business risks

Answer 19

Entrepreneur

Question 20

Who built the first steamboat

Answer 20

Robert Fulton

Question 21

What did the system of canals do

Answer 21

it improved England’s water transport

Question 22

What did companies operate the roads as

Answer 22

toll roads

Question 23

Who built the first steam-driven locomotive

Answer 23

Richard Trevithick

Question 24

Who built the world’s first railroad line

Answer 24

George Stephenson

Question 25

Who built a railroad from Liverpool to Manchester

Answer 25

Entrepreneurs

Question 26

What was Stephenson's Rocket acknowledged as

Answer 26

best locomotive

Question 27

What did Railroads spur

Answer 27

industrial growth

Question 28

What did cheaper transportation boost

Answer 28

many industries

Question 29

What did the Industrial Revolution lead to

Answer 29

economic, political, and social reforms

Question 30

What is an economic policy of not interfering with businesses

Answer 30

Laissez-faire

Question 31

Who did laissez-faire originate with

Answer 31

Enlightenment economic philosophers

Question 32

Who was a defender of free markets

Answer 32

Adam Smith

Question 33

What book did Adam Smith write

Answer 33

The Wealth of Nations

Question 34

Adam Smith believed that economic liberty guarantees what

Answer 34

economic progress

Question 35

What are economic natural laws

Answer 35

self-interest, competition, and supply and demand

Question 36

Who (2 people) boosted Laissez-faire capitalism

Answer 36

Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo

Question 37

What is a system a privately owned businesses seeking profit

Answer 37

Capitalism

Question 38

Who thinks that population grows faster than food supply

Answer 38

Malthus

Question 39

who envisioned a permanent, poor underclass providing cheap labor

Answer 39

Ricardo

Question 40

What is it when you judge things by their usefulness

Answer 40

utilitarianism

Question 41

Who favored regulation to help workers,spread wealth

Answer 41

John Stuart Mill

Question 42

Who improved working conditions

Answer 42

Robert Owen

Question 43

What are factors of production owned by, operated for the people

Answer 43

Socialism

Question 44

Who thinks that the government control can end poverty , bring equality

Answer 44

Socialists

Question 45

Who was a german journalist who proposed a radical socialism

Answer 45

Karl Marx

Question 46

Who was a German, whose father owns a Manchester textile Mill

Answer 46

Friedrich Engels

Question 47

Who believed that capitalism will eventually destroy itself

Answer 47

Karl Marx

Question 48

What caused workers to revolt, seize factories and mills

Answer 48

Inequality

Question 49

What is a society where people own, share the means of production

Answer 49

Communism

Question 50

Where did Marx's ideas later take root in

Answer 50

Russia, China, and Cuba

Question 51

Who believed society is divided into warring classes

Answer 51

Marx and Engels

Question 52

What is another word for "haves"

Answer 52

bourgeoisie

Question 53

What is another word for the "have-nots"

Answer 53

proletariat

Question 54

who predicted that the workers will overthrow the owners

Answer 54

Marx and Engels

Question 55

What are associations formed by laborers to work for change

Answer 55

Unions

Question 56

What did Unions negotiate

Answer 56

a better pay

Question 57

What does it mean to call a work stoppage

Answer 57

strike

Question 58

What kind of workers are first to form unions

Answer 58

Skilled workers

Question 59

What did the U.S have to fight for

Answer 59

the right to form unions

Question 60

What were some union goals

Answer 60

higher wages, shorter hours, and improved conditions

Question 61

What did the U.S eventually end

Answer 61

child labor

Question 62

What did U.S. pass laws to stop

Answer 62

worst abuses of industrialization

Question 63

How many hours were the children limited too

Answer 63

10 hours

Question 64

Who helped end slavery

Answer 64

reformers

Question 65

Who pursued economic and social rights

Answer 65

women

Question 66

What was the name of the worldwide membership founder in 1888

Answer 66

International Council for Women

Question 67

Who established free public schools

Answer 67

reformers