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100
What was the name of the high quality, cheap India cloth that was popular in Great Britain?
Calico
100
This inventor made a tool that helped clean American cotton quickly making it more affordable
Eli Whitney
100
The factories polluted the _______ and the ________.
Air and water
100
Strikes work when
The cost/effort of replacing the workforce is greater than the demands of the workers
100
What, according to Adam Smith, sets the price of goods?
Supply and demand or the invisible hand
200
Why was India able to pay workers less and thus charge less for the finished cloth?
Better farming techniques meant lower food prices (bushels harvested: bushels planted = 20:1 vs 8:1 for Europe)
200
This inventor combined the spinning jenny with the waterframe to make the spinning mule
Samuel Crompton
200
Why were women and children paid less than men?
They had little political rights to demand better treatment.
200
Some men and women opposed suffrage because
they were worried it would be unladylike or distract women from their household duties
200
Das Kapital's title refers to
Capital or sums of money available for investment
300
Before coal, how were homes heated and how with factories powered?
heated- wood, powered-water
300
James Watt's invention was first used to do what?
Provide the power needed to pump water out of coal mines
300
The average life expectancy in the city was
about 17 years
300
Horace Mann is associated with reforms in
education
300
Which thinker suggests that all wealth/capital is created from unpaid or underpaid labor? (The value of the labor is not returned to the worker)
Marx
400
The raw materials available in England that jump started the Industrial Revolution were used for
Iron (used in steel making) and coal (used to power machines and heat homes)
400
The spinning mule did what 2 actions
put yarn onto spools and made a stronger yarn
400
The industry that had one of the lowest life expectancy rates due to the working conditions and age of the workers was
The coal industry
400
Laws about working conditions and the abolition of slavery caused the cost of labor to increase slightly which in caused the people who controlled the means of production to look for cost savings in which part of the means of production (labors, machinery, raw material)
raw materials (aka get new colonies)
400
Which city did Engels describe in his book The Conditions of the Working Class n England?
Manchester
500
The massive population increase that provided labor for the factories was due to these 2 causes
Agricultural Revolution and the discovery of the small pox vaccine
500
The invention that had the biggest impact in terms of railroad construction and building materials was
The Bessemer Steel Making Process
500
Who was the thinker that suggested the poor should not be helped and that the diseases that wiped out huge numbers of people in the cities were just nature's of controlling the population?
Malthus
500
To get the government to pass laws that protected the workers, organizations had to use this technique to convince the gov't officials to change their minds
lobbying
500
While the statement "From each according to his ability, to each according to his deeds" refers to socialism, what does that statement "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" refer to?
communism