This was the first country to industrialize.
What is England?
Who is Karl Marx?
This was the first industry (field of labor) to undergo industrialization.
What are textiles?
Land, labor, and capital are examples of this, which are resources required to produce goods and services.
What are the factors of production?
In this type of economic system, the means of production are owned by private individuals, which allows for greater freedom to succeed (and also freedom to fail).
What is capitalism?
This material was the basic building block of large machines, railroad tracks, trains, and ships.
What is iron (steel)?
This was the name of a group of working class laborers who destroyed machines to protest working conditions and loss of jobs.
Who were the Luddites?
In order to raise money to expand their business, entrepreneurs will often sell these, which offer ownership in the company to those who purchase.
What are (shares of) stock?
Who is James Watt?
In Switzerland, it is prohibited to keep a lone one of these to protect these sociable animals from feeling lonely without the company of another.
What are guinea pigs?
Before the Industrial Revolution, goods were created by hand using this system.
What is the cottage system?
These voluntary organizations are formed by workers to negotiate with employers for better wages, hours, and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
During the Industrial Revolution, we saw the construction of these crowded apartment buildings to help to house the factory workers.
Who is Adam Smith?
This is the most common blood type in humans.
What is O-Positive?
This is the term for the growth of cities that took place as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
What is urbanization?
This is the process of breaking a large task into smaller, more specific tasks, with each one assigned to a different worker.
What is specialization of labor?
Supporters of this philosophy believe that good government is one that creates policies that benefit the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
This Englishmen immigrated to the United States and brought plans for a spinning machine with him, kickstarting industrialization in the United States.
Who is Samuel Slater?
Before becoming an assistant principal, Mrs. Haley taught this subject at Woodbridge High School.
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This movement closed off farmland, pushed small farmers off plots of land, and encouraged experimentation with seeding and harvesting.
What is enclosures/The Enclosure Acts?
In Marxist theory, this is the name for the group of the (poor) factory workers who made up the working class.
Who are the proletariat?
This economics term, supported by Adam Smith, refers to an economy that does not have government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
This engineer is credited with developing the British railway system, including one of the first steam locomotives.
Who is George Stephenson?
This president was the only other U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms, a unique achievement until Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024.
Who is Grover Cleveland?