Basic Facts IR
Economic Systems
Miscellaneous
Economic Sectors
Titans of the IR
100

Began around this year.

What is 1750

100

Private ownership of business.

What is capitalism?

100

Goods that are sold to other countries.

What are exports?

100

Mining uranium.

What is primary?

100

Inventor of the steam engine.

Who is James Watt?

200

Began in this Northern European country.

What is England?

200

Government owns all/most business.

What is communism?

200

The region of the county that was the center for textile production.

What is New England?

200

Employee at the nail salon.

What is tertiary?

200

First to used the assembly line in a factory.

Who is Henry Ford?

300

This energy source 'fueled' it.

What is coal?

300

Modern day North Korea.

What is communism?

300

Industrialization really began in America around this year.

What is 1800?

300

Apple assembles a new iPhone.

What is secondary?

300

Creator of interchangeable parts and the cotton gin.

Who is Eli Whitney?

400

The workplace changed as work shifted from the farm to the ____________.

What is factory?

400

Primary goal is to provide basic services to all people.

What is socialism?

400

Companies like Amazon and Walmart are part of this industry.

What is retail trade?

400

Scientists research new ways to grow food.

What is quaternary?

400

Made millions producing steel in Pittsburgh.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

500

People moving from farms to cities in known as ________________.

What is urbanization?

500

Mostly found in the Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway)

What is socialism?

500

The term used to describe the movement of American jobs overseas.

What is outsourcing?

500

Whole Foods.

What is tertiary?

500

A banker, oil man, and also known as the richest man in history.

Who is John D. Rockefeller?