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100

This class grew and benefited most from changes. 

What is the middle class?

100

The basic years of the Industrial Revolution.

What is the late 1700s to the 1800s?

100

The collective ownership of the means of production.

What is socialism?

100

The person to invent mass-produced pottery.

Who is Josiah Wedgwood?

100

An engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.

What is the steam engine?

200

This major political power was the first to industrialize.

What is the United Kingdom?

200

The year Eli Whitney's cotton gin was invented.

What is 1794?

200

An economic/political system in which a country's trade/industry is controlled by private owners.

What is capitalism?

200
The "Father of the Factory System".

Who is Richard Arkwright?

200

The system of manufacturing that began in the 18th century and is based on the concentration of industry into specialized - and often large - establishments.

What is the factory system?

300

This act forbade children under the age of 9 to work in textile mills.

What is the Factory Act of 1833?

300

The year the power loom (for textiles) was invented.

What is 1785?

300

The political theory created by Karl Marx where property is publicly owned.

What is Communism?

300

The inventor of the spinning jenny.

Who is James Hargreaves?

300

The assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.

What is the division of labor?

400

This act forbade children under the age of 10 from working in the mines.

What is the Mines Act of 1842?

400

The date Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto.

What is February 21, 1848?

400

The European government policies that were designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies.

What is mercantilism?

400

A member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woolen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16).

Who is Luddites?

400

The transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves of radio frequency, especially those carrying sound messages.

What is the radio?

500

This ideology of roles was when women stayed at home and displayed their wealth through domestic activities.

What is the cult of domesticity?

500

The date Thomas Edison gained the patent for the lightbulb.

What is January 27, 1880?
500

The idea that the government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs.

What is laissez-faire?

500

The person to invent the telegraph and morse code.

Who is Samuel Morse?

500

A road vehicle, typically with 4 wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine or electric motor and able to carry a small number of people.

What is the automobile?

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