Industrial Basics
This country was the first to industrialize
What is England?
A farming method that increased crop production.
What is crop rotation?
The most important new power source of the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
An economy where individuals own businesses.
What is capitalism?
He wrote The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
Most people worked as this before the Industrial Revolution
What are farmers?
This change helped lead to population growth in Britain.
What is increased food production?
The natural resource used to fuel steam engines.
What is coal?
An economy where the government controls businesses.
What is communism?
He is known as the father of capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
More food meant more people could work in this new setting
What are factories?
He created the first affordable car using assembly-line production.
Who is Henry Ford?
Another name for a free-market economy.
What is laissez-faire?
He wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Who is Karl Marx?
Cheap, crowded apartments built near factories.
What are tenements?
Farming improvements occurred mainly during this century
What is the 1700s?
Factories during this time relied heavily on this invention.
What is the steam engine?
This system encourages competition and profit
What is capitalism?
He is considered the father of socialism.
Who is Karl Marx?
Natural resources that helped Britain industrialize.
What are coal and iron?
This process helped start industrialization by freeing workers.
What is agricultural improvement/mechanization?
This invention replaced wind and water power.
What is steam power?
A major health issue caused by early factory life.
What is little/no government regulation?
This thinker opposed laissez-faire economics.
Who is Karly Marx?