The Working Poor
Factories workers mostly came from this group of people
Who are peasants?
Europe's population after 1500
What is steadily increasing?
The author of Das Kapital
Who is Karl Marx?
money invested to make more money
What is capital?
This inventor
perfected the steam engine
Who is James Watt?
a protest in which workers agree to temporarily stop working
What is a strike?
This was a new major source of energy in the late 1700's
What is coal?
In this economic system the government aims to regulate the economy so it benefits everyone
What is socialism?
The economic system of the United States
What is capitalism?
This factory owner attempted to established the perfect "utopian" community called New Harmony
Who is Robert Owen?
These people became famous for destroying factories and machines
Who are the Luddites?
The gap between the rich and the poor during the Industrial Revolution
What is steadily increasing?
Absolute equality was the goal of the economic and political philosoper
Who is Karl Marx?
a system based on competition between privately owned businesses offering similar products or service
What is a free market?
This famous author wrote novels describing the hard life of many people in England in the 1800's
Who is Charles Dickens?
Name 2 problems factory workers faced living in cities
Small farms were combined to make large farms in this movement
What is the enclosure movement?
This economic system aimed to abolish private property
What is communism?
This system, which tried to make a country rich by controlling trade, was opposed by Adam Smith, who favored capitalism
What is mercantilism?
This prime minister of Britain attempted pass laws that helped working people
Who is Benjamin Disraeli?
Two reasons why children were employed during the Industrial Revolution
(1) paid them less than adults (2) they were easy to replace (3) they did dangerous work that adults refused to do
Two inventions that helped people make cloth faster and more easily
What is a spinning jenny/water frame/ a cotton gin?
Two socialist ideas that were adopted by American capitalist society
What is Welfare and Social Security
Two of Adam Smith's ideas
(1) the division of labor (2) the law of supply and demand (3) lassiez-faire or free markets
The authors of the Communist Manifesto (must get both)
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?