Industrial Revolution
Things changed?
Shark Tank
MONEYYYYYYY
[Gasp]...not the children
100
The country where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is England
100
What type of housing did most industrial workers live in?
What are tenements
100
Which invention made transportation of goods faster across England?
What is the steam engine or train?
100
What social class is depicted on the right?
What is the bourgeoisie
100
How young were some children who worked in factories?
What is 5 years old
200
What historical event caused the Industrial Revolution?
What is the Agricultural Revolution
200
What term describes the overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions many workers faced?
What are slums
200
Used to generate energy before steam engines
What is the water frame
200
3 Factors of Production
What is land, labor, and capital
200
It was a commonly held belief that children were better suited for factory work because...
What are smaller hands, bodies, and vulnerability
300
How people made goods before the Industrial Revolution.
What is by hand/in the home (cottage industry)
300
Which new social class emerged, consisting of factory workers and peasants?
What is the Proletariat
300
What innovation improved communication during the Industrial Revolution?
What is the telegraph
300
Which thinker critiqued greed from capitalism in The Communist Manifesto?
Who is Karl Marx
300
Why did parents accept child labor?
What is they needed the additional money
400
What is the name for the movement where landowners built fences around the Commons and experimented with new methods of agriculture?
What is the Enclosure Movement?
400
Name the disease that arose in industrialized areas?
What is cholera
400
Name this invention
What are interchangeable parts
400
This economist wrote The Wealth of Nations and promoted laissez-faire economics.
Who is Adam Smith
400
What type of work did child 'hurriers' do?
What is dragging coal carts
500
What natural resources gave Britain an advantage in the Industrial Revolution?
What is coal, iron ore, and rivers/harbors
500
Which reform movement aimed to improve the working conditions of factory employees?
What are labor unions
500
Which ideology justified the minimal government intervention in the economy?
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
500
What did communists want to abolish in order to do away with the class structure in society?
What is private property
500
SIKE! NOT CHILD LABOR! Under capitalism, who sets the prices for goods?
What are consumers (us)