From Steam to Steel
Hungry Histories
Urbanization Nation
The Invisible Hand
Marx My Words
100
What is the term for the large-scale production of goods that took place in industrial factories?
Mass Production
100
Name the event that inspired the artist to draw this image.
The Great Famine
100
What is the term for the growth of cities as shown in this cartoon?
Urbanization
100
Which economic system is being described
private individuals/businesses own the means of production (factories, land, etc.) and operate them for profit, driven by market forces (supply/demand) with minimal government interference, encouraging competition, innovation, and wealth accumulation but also raising concerns about inequality and economic instability
Free Market Capitalism
100
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Name the economic system being described AND identify the person most responsible for promoting these ideas
"Advocates for a classless society in which all property and wealth are communally owned, instead of by individuals"
Economic System: Communism
Philosopher: Karl Marx
200
Why did the Luddites destroy textile machinery?
Automation
(Technological Advancement)
New machines/innovations replaced workers
200
Name the crop that failed and caused the Great Famine in Ireland in 1845-1850
Potato
200
What is the term for having the right to vote?
Suffrage
200
When Mr. Krabs mistreated his workers, Spongebob organized this type of Union protest.
Labor Strike
200
A conflict between classes is known as
Class struggle
300
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Name ONE positive and ONE negative effect of the development of railroads
+ Faster transportation (e.g. people, goods, soldiers, etc.)
+ Created jobs
- Air pollution, greenhouse gases, global warming
300
Name the revolution that the seed drill was a part of
Agricultural Revolution
300
Name the country where the Industrial revolution began
Great Britain
300
Faced with greedy owners and harsh working environments, workers eventually formed these organizations to demand better working conditions
Labor Unions
300
This famous text argued history as a form of class struggle between the "Haves" and the "Have nots" in which the working class would eventually overthrow their oppressive capitalist rulers
"The Communist Manifesto"
- Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
400
Name the TWO natural resources needed to create and power the machines of the early Industrial Revolution
Coal and Iron
400
What form of suffragette protest caused prisons to use the action shown below?
Hunger Strikes
400
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Due to the unsanitary conditions of early industrial cities, what began to spread?
Disease
For DAILY DOUBLE: Cholera
400
The process where groups of employees (usually through a union) negotiates with their employer to determine wages, hours, and other working conditions
Collective Bargaining
400
Physical and non-physical resources used to produce goods and services (labor, tools, factories, land, and capital) are all examples of
Means of Production
500
Before the Industrial Revolution, weavers and craftspeople worked in their homes, spinning and weaving wool, cotton, and linen by hand into finished cloth. What was this method of production known as?
The Domestic System
500
Name TWO population effects that came from The Great Famine
Mass Deaths
Emigration from Ireland to places like England and the U.S.
500
Common lands that were "fenced off" or privatized by landlords was a turning point that led to people being forced to leave farms to find work in the city.
This Act (law) was known as...
The Enclosure Acts
500
Child Labor, poor wages, and long working hours were some of the outcomes for what form of Capitalism?
Laissez-faire capitalism
500
*DAILY DOUBLE*
1. Identify the 3 social classes of the Industrial Revolution
2. Identify/Describe each class
1. Aristocracy (Business/Factory Owners, Bankers, Politicians)
2. Bourgeoisie (Managers, Doctors, Lawyers, "skilled" workers)
3. Proletariat ("unskilled" workers such as coal miners, textile workers, or other forms of manual labor)