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100

First build along rivers, then built anywhere you can run a railroad to transport coal to them!

What is a factory?

100

Most laborers before the IR worked on these...

What are farms?

100

This philosopher wrote The Wealth of Nations and other works. 

Who was Adam Smith?

100

This harms the air, the water, and the world as a whole. 

What is pollution?

200

Pulled by a horse, seeds the Earth quickly... Populations will boom!

What is a seed drill/plow?

200

In addition to poor working conditions, workers suffered with longer... 

What are working days? 

200

This philosopher wrote The Communist Manifesto and other works. 

Who was Karl Marx (or Friedrich Engels)?

200

Necessary in a capitalist economy, abolished in a communist one...

What is private property?

300

James Watt invented it, burning coal runs it, and everything travels faster thanks to it!

What is the steam engine?

300

All too common in the 1800s and early 1900s, this was eventually criminalized...

What is child labor?

300

This theory advocated for state ownership of the means of production and violent force to achieve it if necessary. 

What is communism? 

300

These helped manufacturers transport their goods, there is one that runs from Albany to Buffalo!

What is a canal?

400

Schenectady was revolutionized by the company that mass produced these... It will brighten your day!

What is the light bulb?

400

These dominate factory labor, from Ford to Amazon and beyond...

What are assembly lines?

400

This theory advocated for free markets, supply and demand economics, and private property. 

What is capitalism? 

400

This raw material was burned to operate factory equipment and trains, boats, and other machines...

What is coal?

500

Modern communication can pay homage to this device, quickly relaying messages across the globe wherever _______ lines can reach!

What is the telegraph/telegram?

500

Factory laborers who wished to live close to work were often forced to live in these very cramped buildings...

What are tenements?

500

This idea states that people are driven to do good things by their inherent nature. They want to see good in the world because they are a part of it. 

What is the invisible hand? 

500

These public lands, available for anyone to graze their cattle, were slowly bought up and privatized... 

What are the commons?

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