Ideologies
Make a statement that represents a central idea of laissez-faire economics?
Prices are best determined by supply and demand.
What was one way that the agricultural revolution contributed to the Industrial Revolution
Triggered a population explosion
What is urbanization?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities
What natural resources gave Britain an advantage in the Industrial Revolution?
Coal and iron
During the Industrial Revolution, what happened to the population?
The population grew
Make a true statement about child labor
Long hours, hard, injury’s
A key idea in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is that workers should support the …?
overthrow of the capitalist system
What is the enclosure movement?
The process of consolidating land for forcing small farmers off their land and into cities
What was the water born illness that plagued England's urban area?
Cholera
in what British industry did the Industrial Revolution first take hold?
Textile industry
Which city was the heart of the British textile industry?
Manchester
Revolution will occur more and more frequently in the industrialized nations as the proletariat struggles to overcome the abuses of the capitalist system.” This quotation reflects the ideas of
Karl Marx argues that the working class should rise up against the rich elites
Who was the author of a book about capitalism?
Adam Smith
What is the seed drill?
A device that planted seeds efficiently increasing crop yields
Name the social class that primarily populated urban areas
The working class
What invention made possible the growth of railroads?
Steam locomotive
During the Industrial Revolution, which class benefited the least from the transformation of society?
The working class
Which economic system is based on competition, profits, and self-interest?
Capitalism
What did Karl Marx believe created poverty for many people?
Capitalism
Name an innovation that led to food surplus
seed drill, steam engine , crop rotation
During the Industrial Revolution what happened to the population?
Growth of industrial cities, population growth, rural to urban imigration
What was one reason that parents accepted child labor?
Needed additional money
The division of labor improved the workers’ _
Made there tasks easier
According to Karl Marx, all history is the story of
The struggle between classes in a society.
An economic system where a country’s farms, factories, and businesses are totally owned and controlled by the government i
Communism
What is crop rotation?
The practice of alternating crops in fields to maintain soil fertility
Which describes the condition of a new urban area?
The streets were not paved and had no streetlights.
Drinking water was contaminated.
There was a shortage of housing.
Epidemics swept through the communities.
What is mass production?
It is the production of goods by machinery in a factory.
The goods are produced in standard size.
The goods are produced in large quantities.
The goods are produced rapidly and at a lower cost.
Each worker has one fragmented task.This is known as:
The division of labor
An economic system where there is public ownership of basic industries is known as _