Beginnings of Industrialization
Industrialization in Britain
Industrialization in America and Europe
Capitalism and Communism
Random Industrialization Questions
100
This is a business that issues stock.
What is a corporation?
100
Industrialization began in this country.
What is Britain?
100

This industry would be the backbone of industrialization, providing colonies and countries outside of Europe, a cheap source of unpaid labor.

Slavery

100
This person wrote about and inspired the theory of Communism?
Who was Karl Marx?
100
This person invented the steam engine.
Who was James Watt?
200
This is a certificate that states that you own a share of a company.
What is a stock?
200

This is an organization of workers that fights for higher pay and better working conditions.

What is a union?

200

This entrepreneur, along with four business partners, would establish factories in Massachusetts after "smuggling" factory plans from England. Many young girls would live in these factory towns later named after this man.

Francis Cabot Lowell.

200
This person wrote the Wealth of Nations and is the father of Capitalism.
Who was Adam Smith?
200
This person invented the Cotton Gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
300

These are the three factors of production?

What are Land, labor, and capital.

300

The growth of cities through an increase of population, production, and infrastructure.

Urbanization

300
This man stole British designs for the spinning Jenny and took them to America.
Who was Samuel Slater?
300
This was the name of the book by Karl Marx in which he laid out his communist theory.
What was the Communist Manifesto?
300

This event, caused by the stink of the River Thames and the filthy sewers, resulted in such a foul scent that people collapsed unconscious and Parliament came to a halt. 

The Great Stink of 1858

400

A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers.

Middle Class

400
This was the first industry to industrialize in Britain.
What was the textile industry?
400
This country was the first European continental nation to industrialize. (Hint: Not Britain!)
What was Belgium?
400

This terms refers to the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without government interference.

Lassiez-faire

400
This farming technique involved changing the types of crops grown on a piece every season of land in improve soil nutrient.
What was crop rotation?
500
This is the invention that allowed for cloth to be woven more quickly.
What was the flying shuttle? (Spinning jenny or power loom are also acceptable.)
500
This British city was the birthplace of Industrialization.
What was Manchester?
500

Canal funded and proposed by NY Gov. Dewitt Clinton. This connected NY to the Great lakes via the Hudson River.

Erie Canal

500
In Karl Marx's theory, this is why the workers will revolt against the rich middle class.
What is unfair distribution of wealth?
500

These were the people who hated and broke industrial machines and were inspired by the mythical figure called Ned Ludd. (Similar to the Amish)

The Luddites 

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