Industrial revolution study

Question 1

Henry Bessemer

Answer 1

Created a process to make steel cheaply and efficiently

Question 2

Dynamo

Answer 2

First electric generator

Question 3

Michael Faraday

Answer 3

Inventor of dynamo

Question 4

Guglielmo Marconi

Answer 4

Invented the radio

Question 5

Louis Pasteur

Answer 5

French biologist who linked between microbes and diseases

Question 6

Stock

Answer 6

Shares of an company

Question 7

Assembly line

Answer 7

increased productivity

Question 8

interchangeable parts

Answer 8

mass produced parts, drove down prices

Question 9

Corporation

Answer 9

Board of directors

Question 10

Mutual aid society

Answer 10

Early form of insurance

Question 11

Natural selection

Answer 11

A mechanism of evolution

Question 12

Women’s suffrage

Answer 12

The right to vote

Question 13

Social Darwinism

Answer 13

applied to society then misleads to racism

Question 14

Labor unions

Answer 14

an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.

Question 15

Standard living

Answer 15

Middle class, people are comfortable

Question 16

Where did the Industrial revolution spread after great britain?

Answer 16

France,Belgium,Germany, And U.S.

Question 17

How come other countries were successful and some were not?

Answer 17

Some countries had foreign interference, political unrest.

Question 18

What new types of transportation developed around 1900s?

Answer 18

Automobiles/Airplanes

Question 19

What is the main reason for Europe’s population growth in the 1800s?

Answer 19

Hospitals became cleaner and sterilized their equipment, people in Europe became healthy washing themselves etc…

Question 20

How did cities change in the late 1800s?

Answer 20

Cities became modern with shopping areas, movie theaters, zoos and more.

Question 21

How did workers respond to harsh conditions of industrial life?

Answer 21

Formed mutual aid societies which was just early insurance so in case of an incident they would be covered.

Question 22

What laws helped workers in the late 1800s?

Answer 22

By the late 1800s workers began to form unions to collectively bargain for higher wages and better working conditions.
Child labor was banned and free, compulsory education began

Question 23

What were 3 social classes that existed in the late 1800s?

How did the assembly line affect the standard living.

Answer 23

Wealthy business owners , middle class professionals , lower class urban farmers.

significantly increasing productivity, reducing costs, and making consumer goods more accessible to a larger population.

Question 24

Laissez-Faire

Answer 24

Hands off government approach

Question 25

Iron law of wages

Answer 25

a proposed law of economics that asserts that real wages always tend, in the long run, toward the minimum wage necessary to sustain the life of the worker

Question 26

Utilitarianism

Answer 26

Goal for society should be happiness for the greatest number

Question 27

Communism

Answer 27

Government led by small group of leaders