Cities
Which country industrialized first
Great Britain/england
how would you describe working conditions
horrible, long hours, dirty, etc
The belief that the government should not regulate businesses and that companies should be free to maximize their profits is called.
capitalism
what was the cottage system
everything was done by hand and at home
The transcontinental railroad was primarily built by
Chinese immigrants
Define Urbanization
the rapid movement from the countryside to the city
Factories were located near?
Rivers
The belief that wealth should be evenly distributed among all people is known as
socialism
What happened at the Sand creek massacre?
American troops killed innocent natives American women, children, elderly
which president help funded the transcontinental railroad
Abraham Lincoln
Poorly built, unsanitary, overcrowded areas in cities are called
slums
what industry industrialized first
Textile
what is the extreme form of socialism?
Communism
what group help organized strikes to raise wages and improve conditions
Labor unions
How much were they paid per mile of regular and rough terrain?
-16,000
-3x (48,000)
What is the world's first industrial city
Manchester
What is one reason why factories prefered to hire children?
- they were smaller and could fit into machines/tunnels
-easier to abuse/take advantage of
- less pay
What is one of Thomas Malthus' capitalistic theories?
-Growing population= starvation and famine
-limit poor people having kids
-Continue to be at war
what does the term laissez faire mean
leave alone
what two companies built the transcontinental railroad
Union and Central Pacific
What is it called when factory owners genuinely cared about their workers and built communities around their factories?
Utopia/Utopian ideas
what was the name of the law that first regulated child labor
Factory act of 1819
What is one of David Ricardo's capitalistic theories?
- you needed a permanent poor class because society benefits from it
why did Great Britain industrialize first
-natural resources
-urbanization
-strong government support
-geography
How did the transcontinental railroad impact Native Americans
- Took their land
- Forced them on reservations
-Forced them to get rid of their culture (assimilate)
- Loss of Buffalos