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22 Cards in this Set
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What were the factors that allowed Britain to industrialize first? |
Factors of Production (land, labor, capital), Colonies, stable government, strong navy
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How did industrialization hurt skilled craft workers working in cottage industry? |
by undercutting the prices for their products.
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What did the People who advocated social democracy want? |
move from capitalism to socialism by democratic means |
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels argued that capitalism lead to what inevitability? |
poverty and a workers’ revolution
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The idea of separate spheres implied what for men and women? |
women stayed at home while men supported the family |
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What did British workers organize into in the early 1800s to pressure employers to raise wages and improve working conditions in factories? |
Labor Unions
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What enabled the United States to industrialize rapidly? |
a wealth of natural resources and a large labor pool |
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How did Britain’s colonial empire fuel the development of industry in that country? |
the nation had access to vast amounts of raw materials |
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Why was the region in northwestern England known as the “black country”? |
iron-smelting factories polluted the air |
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What caused the Luddite movement to emerge? |
oppose industrial changes that were putting weavers out of work |
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What led to the growth of the middle class? |
industry’s need for managers and other mid-level employees
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Who was a British farmer who invented the seed drill, a machine that made planting grain more efficient? |
Jethro Tull
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Inventions that transformed cloth-making from a cottage industry to a machine-driven industry led to the construction of large buildings called what? |
Factories |
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What is the era when the use of power-driven machinery began to develop and replace the homemade industry called? |
The Industrial Revolution
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The world’s first mill that took raw cotton through all the processes to turn it into finished cloth was located where? |
Lowell, Massachusetts
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What system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items, became known as the American system? |
Mass Production
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Who wrote The Wealth of Nations, which declared that markets free from government interference would benefit everyone? |
Adam Smith
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In industrialized countries the level of material comfort, also known as what, generally improved? |
Standard of Living
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In industrialized countries the level of material comfort, also known as what, generally improved? |
Standard of Living
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In Great Britain what resource was crucial for heating water to power steam engines? |
Coal |
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What is the theory that government, rather than individuals, should own property and control industry? |
Socialism |
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Why is the industrial revolution widely considered to be the most revolutionary of all the revolutions? |
*Life changed dramatically for everyone, everywhere in 250 years, when not much had changed in the last 2500 years.
*More things were created and invented since the start of the Industrial Revolution then all the years before combined.
*The social structure was erased and rewritten. No longer was birthright the determining factor in class, but the ability to produce and make money.
*The creating of an entire new class- the middle class.
*New economic theories, like socialism and communism, were created in response to the industrial revolution, and were then adopted by countries- setting the stage for years of conflict. |
