Wild Card
This word means "customers who are willing and able to buy your products"
What is demand?
This northern Italian businessman/landowner/government official hired soldiers to help unify the country.
Who is Cavour?
This kingdom united from a series of tiny city-states, in part so that its people could 'catch up' with the Industrial Revolution.
What is Italy?
Jethro Tull's invention to create straight, evenly-spaced rows of crops
What is the seed drill?
This was a set of ideas about how the economy worked, designed to make it so kings controlled who traded with whom and therefore got lots of tax money.
What is mercantilism?
This inventor created a device that prolonged the life of slavery in the United States.
Who is Eli Whitney?
What is enclosure?
Henry Bessemer found a way to make this iron ore and coal product more cost efficient
What is steel?
This two-word phrase means "things you make into something else to produce finished goods in a factory"
What are raw materials?
This general marched through southern Italy with an army in red shirts, fighting small battles to unify the country.
Who is Garibaldi?
People who fought against child labor often spoke out FOR this advance in human rights.
What is women's suffrage?
This kind of production -- where people did some of it in a small workshop and had others finish it in private homes -- wasn't fast enough, so it was replaced with factories.
What are cottage industries?
What is the name of Karl Marx's big idea about how to solve the problems of industrial capitalism?
What is communism?
This person invented the spinning jenny
Who was James Hargreaves?
These worker organizations formed for the first time in response to the low wages and poor working conditions of the Industrial Revolution.
What are labor unions?
Once Edward Jenner's advance was in place, rates of this disease dropped tremendously.
What is smallpox?
This part of Italy was the last to join the united country.
What is the area around Rome (the papal states)?
These two people wrote the Communist Manifesto/
This was the name of the kind of thinking about economics that replaced mercantilism in Europe
What is laissez-faire economics?
This was the purpose of Eli Whitney's big invention -- what it did.
What is "separated cotton seeds from the cotton"?