Industrial Beginnings
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Economics
The Factories
100

Coal and iron ore are two examples.

Natural Resources

100

This ideology attempted to justify laissez-faire economics and popularized the phrase "survival of the fittest"

Social Darwinism 

100

In addition to the kinetoscope, this inventor is credited with developing the first light bulb.

Thomas Edison

100

In The Wealth of Nations, he argued for a capitalist economic system with no government intervention.

Adam Smith

100

Name of the journey of enslaved Africans to the Americas

Middle Passage

200

This term refers to the migration of people to cities.

Urbanization

200

Unlike capitalism, these economic philosophies argue the government should regulate the economy.

Socialism and Communism 

200

The Industrial Revolution started in which century? 

18th century, 1700s

200

In the Communist Manifesto, he argued that capitalism was unstable and that communism would replace it.

Karl Marx

200

This man led the fight against slavery in the British Empire

William Wilberforce

300

These acts allowed wealthy farmers to fence off land in the commons, and pushed former farmers to the cities.

Enclosure Acts

300

The extension of suffrage, the factory acts, and the abolition of slavery are examples of this.

Social Reforms

300

Not the Steelers defensive lineman, this inventor perfected the steam engine and has a unit of power named after him.

James Watt

300

According to Karl Marx, these two classes struggled against each other in the Industrial Revolution.

Who are the bourgeoisie and proletariat

300

This geometric shape describes the slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas during the Industrial Revolution

Triangle Trade
400

Owing in part to the spinning Jenny and the Water Frame, this was the first type of production to industrialize.

Textiles

400

He got the ball rolling on evolution by coming up with the idea of natural selection.

Charles Darwin

400

If you're lactose intolerant you may not care, but he developed a way to eliminate germs.

Louis Pasteur 

400

Free markets, free competition, and free enterprise are the hallmarks of this economic system.

Capitalism 

400

What is the name for a voluntary association of workers that fought for rights of the laborers in the factories? 

Unions
500

Before industrialization, work was done at home, which is known as this type of economic system.

Domestic System

500

What things that are usually looked at as "social wrongs" can be justified through Social Darwinism? 

Racial Superiority, Wars of Conquest

500

The Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain because of these 3 words (colonies, workers, money).

Land, Labor Capital

500

Meaning hands-off, Adam Smith advocated this type of capitalism

Laissez Faire

500

What are 2 examples of how unions would make their grievances known? 

Pickets, Boycotts, Strikes

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