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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

What did the factory owners need to make the machines work



What is workers



100
This person wrote about and inspired the theory of Communism?
Who was Karl Marx?
100
This farming technique involved changing the types of crops grown on a piece every season of land in improve soil nutrient.
What was crop rotation?
200
The Industrial Revolution was preceded by this other revolution.
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
200


3 Natural Resources


What is coal, iron ore and rivers

200

The refusal to work until working conditions improved

What is a strike?

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

Capital



What is money used to make more money



300

The most abused workers during the Industrial Revolution

Who are children?

300

What theory believes in distributing wealth to the poor?

Socialism. 

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

The amount of hours that people worked in factories and how many days

What is 12 hours a day, 6 days a week?

400

Describe Communism

  • No private property – all means of 

production controlled by the people 

  • All goods & services shared equally

  • No class distinctions

400
This is an organization of workers that fights for higher pay and better working conditions.
What is a 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

Burning this made water become steam


What is coal?

500

2 reasons why railroads were important

What is gave people a way to move around and helped factory owners a way to move their goods

500

Explain the Invisible Hand

markets can lead to beneficial outcomes for society, even when individuals are acting in their own self-interest

500
In Karl Marx's theory, this is why the workers will revolt against the rich middle class.
What is unfair distribution of wealth?