Key Terms
What is Blacklist?
Inventor of the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
What was the Factory System?
This divided Africa among European nations.
Policy allowing businesses to operate with little or no government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
What is textile?
Political economist and politician who contributed widely to social and political theory.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
This was the primary impact of the Industrial Revolution on rural lifestyles.
What was people migrating to cities?
Reason for European countries seeking control of Africa.
What is to acquire natural resources?
Form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx where the community owned the wealth.
What is Communism?
The working class/have nots according to Karl Marx.
What is Proletariat?
Inventor of the Cotton Gin, which was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The primary reason for the population boom in Britain during the Industrial Revolution.
What was agricultural efficiency leading to the surplus of food?
Outcome of the Crimean War.
What is control of the Black Sea?
These people during this time were in business for themselves, had a skill and owned tools.
What are Artisans?
These multi-story buildings were divided into crowded apartments.
What are tenements?
Who is Karl Marx?
Work was often tedious, with long hours and health risks.
What is the working conditions in factories?
He hired explorers to claim territory and exploit resources.
Who is King Leopold of Belgium?
Organization of workers who bargain for better pay and working conditions.
What is the labor union?
The period of time starting in the 1700s when production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machinery.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Invented the telephone in 1876 and was a Scottish-born American.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Cholera, Tuberculosis and Black Lung Disease.
Common justification used by Europeans for imperialism.
What is to spread Christianity?
Developer James Watt developed a way to turn heat into motion.
What is the Steam Engine?