Who expanded our knowledge about bacteria and disease?
Louis Pasteur
100
Why were women and children used in the factories?
They were cheaper
100
Workers joined together to form these to fix some of the problems with their jobs in the factories
unions
100
What did Adam Smith write?
The Wealth of Nations
200
Where in the world did the Industrial Rev spread once it started?
United States and Western Europe
200
What did James Hargreaves invent?
The spinning jenny
200
Describe the day of the typical factory worker
Must answer at least 3 of the following:long hours, no weekend, one break a day, harsh or dangerous conditions, low pay, overcrowded housing, company store, dirty
200
The increase in slavery at the start of the industrial revolution eventually led to this movement/action:
Abolition of slavery in Britain and the US
200
What books did Karl Marx write?
Das Kapital & The Communist Manifesto
300
Why did Great Britain desperately want to find a way to make cheaper, higher quality cotton?
To compete with India to make $.
300
Who invented the steam engine?
James Watts
300
The Industrial Revolution increased the use of the factory while decreasing the use of what system of production?
The Putting Out System OR the Cottage Industries
300
Women began to demand the right to vote, also known as
suffrage
300
Who did Marx wrote with?
Frederick Engels
400
Name the series of laws that forced many small farmers off their land and into the cities.
The British Enclosure Movement
400
Which invention had the greatest impact on forced labor in the former colonies?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
400
When mass numbers of people moved to the cities, they were met by these problems in the cities (not job related, just city problems)...
Must answer at least 2 of the following:
overcrowding
little police protection
sanitation issues
disease
pollution
crime
low quality housing
400
When workers negotiate their wages together as a group with the factory managers, it is called
Collective Bargaining
400
Which economic theory suggested that competition and the invisible hand should determine the price of goods?
Capitalism
500
Name the event that caused overpopulation due to better nutrition.
The Agricultural Revolution
500
What invention is most directly related to the supply of the natural resource of iron in Great Britain?
Bessemer's Steel Making Process
500
Eventually child labor was stopped by making this a requirement for young children
Education
500
attempts to regulate working conditions and quality of product violate the principle of ________ in Adam Smith's work
laissez faire
500
Which system suggested that the means of production should not be controlled by individuals with large amounts of money?