Industrial Revolution
The primary fuel source of the Industrial Revolution
What is coal?
Most of the Irish that emigrated Ireland went to...
What is America?
What new invention allowed for the quick and efficient planting of seeds, which also required less people to work on the farm?
What is Jethro Tull's Seed Drill?
The economic theorist the created the Wealth of Nations and the theory of Laissez Faire Capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
The power that unions harness to get their demands met
What is "collective organizing?"
After better sources of fuel and increase in machines, what final innovation came from the Industrial Revolution that made getting goods to market easier, safer and cheaper?
What is "transportation"? Also acceptable: Canals, trains, turnpikes, etc.
Japan's biggest fear, realized after the Opium Wars in China and America's Gunboat Diplomacy.
What is colonization?
More efficient farming practices = more food
More food = ???
"Increase in population"
"Greater ability for job specialization"
Karl Marx believed that society was separated into these two social classes, and they would be destined to fight forever
What are the Bourgeoisie (Upper) and Proletariat (Working) Classes?
Two demands of the Women's Rights Movement.
-Education
-Divorce
-Economic Status (own property/be economically independent)
-Socially independent
-Right to vote
The factors that allowed for the Industrial Revolution to take place where it did (there are three)?
What are:
-Abundance of ore (like coal)
-Natural Harbors
-The place's empire!!!
The crop that the Irish became solely reliant on due to English colonization?
What is the potato?
What was the problem with the three-field rotation system?
What is "one field needed to be fallow/empty"?
Economic theory that proved to improve conditions for lower class groups but keep some class differences
What is the socialism?
Why would Communism appeal to members of the working class?
What are "terrible working & living conditions?"
How people made goods before the Industrial Revolution
What is the Domestic System (or Cottage System)?
One major effect of the Meiji Restoration
Japan industrializes/westernizes/modernizes
What benefit did the enclosure movement provide for the farmers that purchased the land?
What is "free to do as they pleased?"
The role of government in Capitalism
What is "non-existent" (or the like)
Demands of the Labor Reform Movement.
-End to/lessening of child labor in factories
-Limiting work hours
-Better & safer working conditions
-Worker's compensation
-Government oversight
The process of using machines to complete jobs formerly done by hand.
What is mechanization?
This modern tech company started during the Meiji Restoration as a playing card company.
What is Nintendo?
How did the Agricultural Revolution lead to the rise of Urbanization?
What is people being pushed off the land, and finding jobs in factories?
Smith believed that which two factors (known as the "invisible hand") created the wealth in society
What are "supply and demand"
The original purpose of unions.
What is "to provide a safety net among workers"