Causes
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Western society was primarily ______________, another word for a society which is based around farming.
What is Agricultural
This innovation powered factory machines, trains, and boats.
What is the Steam Engine
Apartments that tended to be small, cramped, poorly-lit, and poorly-ventilated.
What is Tenements
This philosophy means the government has a hands-off approach and allows the economy to operate according to the laws of supply & demand.
What is Capitalism
This class of people included farmers, factory workers, and servants.
What is the Working Class
New laws which allowed the rich to buy public land called the commons is know as this movement.
What is the Enclosure Movement
This machine allowed for the mass production of textiles.
What is the Power Loom.
Creating large amounts of standardized product through an automated and/or mechanical process
What is Mass Production
This German philosopher promoted a more radical theory of "scientific socialism"
Who is Karl Marx
This class of people included factory owners, accountants, merchants, bankers, lawyers, and shopkeepers.
What is the Middle Class
This system provided loans to entrepreneurs, therefore helping people grow their businesses.
What is the Central Bank
This new source of energy led to improvements in iron. When heated, it would help to produce steam.
What is Coal.
Dealing out or sharing things in a new way.
What is Redistribution
In this economic system, no private ownership of property should be allowed. Instead the wealth should be shared amongst all people.
What is Communism
This report was written by a British politician who led a Parliamentary investigation into the conditions in textile factories.
What is the Sadler Committee
Great Britain would retrieve this from their many colonies around the world... which would later be turned into manufactured goods.
What is Raw Materials
This innovation required users to pay a toll. The funds from the toll would help to maintain this new and improved way of transportation.
What is the Turnpike
Something that motivates or encourages a person to do something.
What is Incentive
This man initially introduced the ideas of Capitalism. He also wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations where he describes what makes a nation wealthy.
Who is Adam Smith
This increase in population in Great Britain overwhelmed the city's sewage system... this is know as...
What is The Great Stink
This term represents that people moved to cities in order to be closer to the factories where they would often work.
What is Urbanization
This man pushed forward the new and improved technology of the Steam Engine
Who is James Watt
Money that can be invested
What is Capital
This document served as a platform to describe the goals of Marx and Engels ideas. This document argues that class struggles are the driving force behind the current historical developments.
What is The Communist Manifesto
A bacterium accidentally arrived in Great Britain through trade which led to a blight, which destroyed many crops. This tragedy is known as the ....
What is The Irish Potato Famine