A structure allowing the Dutch to reclaim land from the sea.
What is a dike?
100
This English noble brought the turnip to English agriculture.
Who is Lord Charles Townshend?
100
This device created by Arkwright, could create many spools of thread at once and moved production to the factories from the farm.
What is the Waterframe?
100
The movement of populations from the countryside to the towns and cities.
What is urbanization?
100
This individual was the primary person behind the laissez-fire, or hands off economic policies that are the foundation of the Industrial Revolution.
Who is Adam Smith?
200
Land restructuring that promoted farm production.
What is the enclosure movement?
200
This head of a family helped improve the smelting of iron.
Who is Abraham Darby?
200
This device, invented by Jethro Tull, increased agricultural production because it placed seeds in the optimum location.
What is the Seed Drill?
200
The vast majority of people were forced to live in small single room residences in buildings with no running water or sanitation systems.
What is a tenement?
200
This individual was an influential British economist who tried to find the "natural laws" that governed wages.
Who is David Ricardo?
300
A crop in England that helps restore depleted soil.
What is the turnip?
300
This man wrote "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."
Who is Adam Smith?
300
Transportation overland was improved by the development of this system.
What is the Turnpike?
300
Farm families, including women and children, were now forced to work in difficult and dirty conditions for 12 to 16 hours per day, controlled by the schedule.
What is the factory system?
300
This individual promoted the idea that the goal of society should be "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" of its citizens.
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
400
Both the Dutch and the English began using this previously discarded material to replenish soil nutrients.
What is manure?
400
This economist believed that the population would outpace agricultural production.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
400
This device started out as a pump, developed by Thomas Newcomen, and later became a major source of power for industrial production.
What is the steam engine?
400
This group protested the use of "labor saving" machines because it was costing them their jobs.
Who are the Luddites?
400
This Industrial Revolution thinker believe strongly that the means of production should be owned by the whole, rather than by private individuals.
Who is Karl Marx?
500
This British King, an enemy of the American colonies, was also know as "Farmer George"
Who is King George III?
500
This individual was a Utilitarian and Utopian thinker who started a community based on those principles in New Lanark, Scotland.
Who is Robert Owen?
500
Pioneers like George Stephenson developed this technology to move large quantities of goods from factory to the people.
What is the rail road?
500
This sect of the Christian religion worked with working class families to change their circumstances.
Who are the Methodists?
500
According to Karl Marx all history is economic with the primary force driving history as a battle between two groups. To him they were know specifically by the names?