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25 Cards in this Set
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During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?
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People migrated from rural areas to cities
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The cotton gin was a machine that could
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separate seeds from raw cotton
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The first factories developed in what industry
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textiles
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The Luddites were a
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labor organization
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In the early 1700s , Abraham Darby's experiments led him to
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produce less expensive, better-quality iron
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Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because
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disease was a natural means of population control
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best describes David Ricardo's "Iron Law of Wages?"
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Wage increases will not raise the standard of living of poor families
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"The greatest happiness for the greatest number"
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utilitarianism
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German socialists formed a social democracy in the 1860s in order to transition gradually
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from capitalism to socialism
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Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it
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created prosperity for few and poverty for many
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Land enclosure in the 1699s and the 1700s resulted in
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larger farms
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Abraham Darbe made better quality iron by
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using coal to smelt the iron
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Steam became an efficient power source of improvements made by
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James Watt
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The slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in Britain
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providing cheap labor
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The development of steam power enabled the growth of
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railroads
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In what ways were railroads and improvement over canals?
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Railroads did not have to follow the course of a river
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The putting out system was a method of
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producing cloth in individual homes
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The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the
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working class
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Laws called "factory acts" were passed in the early 1800s to
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allow workers to organize into unions
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Most early factory workers were women because
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employers could pay women less
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Which of the following was a long term result of the Industrial Revolution
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a general rise in the standard of living
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According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was
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an unrestricted free market
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Jeremy Bentham believed that
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laws should be judged by wether they bring more pleasure than pain
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According to socialists, the solution to poverty and injustice was
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shared ownership by the people of the means of production
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Which group established communities where all work is shared and all property is owned in common?
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Communists
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