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Industrial Revolution

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206210525Eli Whitney's "claim to fame"Cotton Gin
206210526Major use of high-quality ironTo make railroads
206210527Describe the Industrial RevolutionThere was a significant change in the way people lived and worked
206210528Country where Industrial Revolution beganBritain
206210529Three main ingredients that allowed IR to take root and thriveLand, Labor, and Capital
206210530Jethro Tull's "claim to fame"Seed Drill
206210532Positive effect of the IRA rise in wages
206210533What was one hazard of working in a textile factoryThe air was filled with lint
206210534Why did factory owners prefer to hire women?Women could be paid less than men
206210535Thomas Newcomen's "claim to fame"Steam Engine
206210536Thomas Malthus' "claim to fame"Wrote about population and food supply
206210537Name two goals of CommunismTo end capitalism and create a classless society
206210538Factories were first used by this industryTextile Industry
206210539Abraham Darby's experiments led him to thisProduce a less expensive, better quality iron.
206210540Laissez-faire economists believed thatA free market would help everyone.
206210541John Kay's "claim to fame"Flying Shuttle
206210542Karl Marx thought society should evolve fromCapitalism to Communism
206210543Why did Karl Marx dislike capitalism?He believed it created prosperity for few and poverty for many
206210545Stevenson's "claim to fame"Locomotive
206210546Two reasons the IR began in BritainPlentiful natural resources and easy access to the sea
206210547James Watt's "claim to fame"Improving the steam engine
206210548Why did Thomas Malthus discourage vaccinations?Disease was a natural means of population control
206210549Define enclosureConsolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers
206210550What are tenements?Multi-story buildings divided into apartments.
206210551The cause of the growth of cities in the IRThe need for factory workers
206210552Name one problem with the "sources of power" man depended on before the IRUnreliable
206210553Workers' organizations that wanted to initiate worker reforms wereLabor Unions
206210554To actively give money to other people and promote the welfare of others isPhilanthropy
206210555When many people agree not to use or buy a product or serviceBoycott
206210556A person who pleads for the cause of others or speaks for them inAdvocate
206210557A number and or statistic about human populationsDemographic
206210558When one group exclusively owns all the supply in a marketMonopoly
206210560Karl Marx's & Friedrich Engels' famous book"The Communist Manifesto"
206210562Karl Marx believed that pure Communism would be a system whereEach person would contribute what he or she could and receive what he or she needed
208960596UtilitarianismIdea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
208960597Robert Owencreated a "utopian" community
208960598Proletariatthe working class
208960599Bourgeoisiethe middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people

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