Factories
Name two inventions that helped make textiles faster?
Spinning jenny, water frame, mule, cotton gin, flying shuttle.
Who improved the steam engine so it was more reliable?
James Watt
Who was the main champion of capitalism?
Adam Smith
Who are the two authors of the Communist Manifesto
Karl Mark and Friedrich Engels
Who became famous for opposing industrialization by destroying machines and factories?
The Luddites
What type of people did factory owners like to hire because they were smaller and easier to intimidate?
Children
After 1500, what happened to the population of Europe?
It grew
Money invested to make more money is known as what?
Capital
One main concern Marx had with the capitalism is the increase in what?
The gap between the rich and the poor
The idea that the government should control industries or major industries is ties aligned with which economic theory?
Socialism
From which group of people did most factory workers come?
Peasants
Who wrote novels focused on characters based on the working poor of his time?
Charles Dickens
The invisible hand that control prices in a free market is known as what?
The law of supply and demand
Strike
The idea that a country can grow rich by controlling trade is associated with which economic theory?
Mercantilism
What was an important source of energy that allowed iron to be melted and for the water in steam to remain at high temperatures?
Steam
Who passed laws that helped the working poor?
Benjamin Disraeli
A system based on competition between privately owned businesses offering a similar product or service is a
Free Market
What was the key thing that communism aimed to abolish?
Private property
The combining of small fields, some of which were used by peasants, into large farms was known as the ?
Enclosure Movement
What did Robert Owens try to establish?
A perfect community or a utopian community
Who invented the first steam locomotive?
Richard Trevithick
The idea that work is more effective when broken down into specific steps, each step being performed by one person over and over again, is known as what?
The division of labor
What was Karl Marx's ultimate goal?
Absolute equality
The Year of 1848, known as the Year of Revolution, was also known as what?
The Springtime of Nations or the Springtime of Revolution