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Beginnings of Industrialization
Industrialization in Britain
Industrialization in America and Europe
Capitalism and Communism
Random Industrialization Questions
100
Industrialization began in this country.
What is Britain?
100
This was the first industry to industrialize in Britain.
What was the textile industry?
100
This is a certificate that states that you own a share of a company.
What is a stock?
100
This person wrote about and inspired the theory of Communism?
Who was Karl Marx?
100

This economic system relies on private property, free markets, and individual investment. .

What is capitalism or (liberalism)

200
The Industrial Revolution was preceded by this other revolution.
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
200

This movement involved wealthy landowners buying up small, public village farms to fence them in for experimental farming.

What is enclosure movements

200
This is a business that issues stock.
What is a corporation?
200
This person wrote the Wealth of Nations and is the father of Capitalism.
Who was Adam Smith?
200
This person invented the Cotton Gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
300
This person invented the steam engine.
Who was James Watt?
300
This British city was the birthplace of Industrialization.
What was Manchester?
300
This was the first factory town in America.
What was Lowell, Massachusettes?
300
This philosophy rose as a response to the industrial revolution and glorified heroes.
What is romanticism?
300
People migrated from this place to the other during the Industrial Revolution.
What are from farms (rural areas) to cities (factories).
400
These are the three factors of production?
What are Land, labor, and capital.
400
These geographical features helped Britain become the first nation to Industrialize.
What are rivers and harbors?
400
This country was the first European continental nation to industrialize. (Hint: Not Britain!)
What was Belgium?
400
This type of literature was written by Charles Dickens and was often critical of the middle class during the Industrial Revolution.
What is social criticism?
400

This is an organization of workers that fights for higher pay and better working conditions.

What is a labor union?

500
This is the invention that allowed for cloth to be woven more quickly.
What was the flying shuttle? (Spinning jenny or power loom are also acceptable.)
500

Children and adults in early factories often faced grueling daily shifts lasting this many hours

What is 12 to 16 hours

500
This man stole British designs for the spinning Jenny and took them to America.
Who was Samuel Slater?
500
This was the name of the book by Karl Marx in which he laid out his communist theory.
What was the Communist Manifesto?
500
In Karl Marx's theory, this is why the workers will revolt against the rich middle class.
What is unfair distribution of wealth?