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Britain Brings the Boom!
Of Laws and Theories
Better Place for ALL?
100

Improvement of this in urban areas in England helped spur a population boom.

What is Sanitation?

100

This English invention is considered one of the most important early innovations that led to the economic boom in England.

What is the Steam Engine?
100

Stricter quarantine measures, improved sanitation, and smallpox inoculation all led to this in England.

What is a Population Explosion?

100

The "Iron Law of Wages" theory was proposed by this economist.

Who is David Ricardo?

100

This inventor added a Steam Engine to the ship Clermont in 1807, improving transportation methods on waterways. 

Who is Robert Fulton?

200

The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society.

What is Infrastructure?

200

This American invention led to a boom in England's textile industry and a significant increase in slaves in the United States.

What was the Cotton Gin?

200

The Four-Field System increased this in England.

What is is Crop Production?

200

Thomas Malthus proposed this in his Essay on the Principle of Population.

What is population growth would outrun food supply, leading to a decrease in food per person?

200

This Act addressed the poor working conditions of children in textile factories. 

What is the Factory Act of 1833?

300

The right to vote in political elections.

What is Suffrage?

300

The combination of the Water Frame and the Spinning Jenny led this more efficient invention in the textile factories.  

What is the Spinning Mule?

300

These agricultural inventions that promulgated the early growth of the Industrial Revolution. (List 2)

What are the Seed Drill, Selective Breeding, Four-Field System, Steel Plow, and Threshing Machine?

300

The Combination Laws made these illegal, decreasing worker's ability to protect themselves from poor working conditions.

What is Trade Unions?

300

This 19th century artistic movement can be described by a rejection of order and industry and an emphasis on nature. 

What is Romanticism?

400

A type of cloth or woven fabric.

What is Textile?

400

This invention in communication led to the transfer of information quickly and large distances through Morse Code.

What is the Telegraph?

400

This movement played a significant role to the start of  the Industrial Revolution by improving agricultural methods.

What is the Enclosure Movement?

400

Adam Smith's economic theory is strongly connected to this French term, which essentially means keeping the government out of business. 

What is Laizzez-Faire?

400
This famous economist, who died poor, pushed the idea of government interventions to prevent the growing discrepancy of wealth between the working class and the factory owners.  

Who is Karl Marx?

500

English workers who destroyed machinery that they believed was threatening their jobs.

What is Luddites?

500

This innovation led to better quality, less expensive steel. 

What is the Bessemer Process?

500

Having these three natural resources in England help with Britain's early start to the Industrial Revolution.

What is Coal, Iron Ore, and Waterways?

500

This group pushed for universal manhood suffrage and equal electoral districts.

Who are the Chartists?

500

Poor working conditions and long hours led to the creation of these to protect worker's rights.

What are Trade Unions?