Industrial Revolution Review

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The use of steam engines improved what?

Factories- Trains & Boats-Transportation

Name of workers seeking labor reforms?

Unions- Sometimes they went on strike, Or refused to work

List the 3 factors of production

Land Labor Capital--Money

What is Laissez-faire?

Term that means to leave business alone

Cottage industry workers worked where?

At home, Making clothes

List different reform movements

Slavery-William Wilberforce called for an end to slavery in England

Child Labor- Factory Act of 1833 Women's suffrage-Emily Davison Free Education- Horace Mann

What Constitutional Amendment dealt with former slaves suffrage?

13th -Freed the Slaves 14th-Gives Citizenship

15th-Right to Vote

Where did the Industrial Revolution Begin?

England Had the minerals(Coal and Iron

ore) Swift running rivers Growth of the Middle Class Rise in the standard of living (long term effect)

Karl Marx wrote?

The Communist Manifesto

Who is credited with the assembly line?

Henry Ford The Automobile

Why were children used in factories?

Cheap Labor Pay them less than adults

What happened to the population in the country after the Industrial Revolution?

Urbanization-Move to the city

Which amendment to the constitution abolished slavery?

13th

What did the Enclosure Act do in Great Britain

Helped increase crop production By letting larger farms grab more

public land Hurt the smaller farms

Why was Louis Pasteur important?

Found that bacteria caused disease

List new techniques of the Agricultural Revolution

Seed drill Crop Rotation Breeding of animals

How did the Rail Roads help England?

Cheap to transport materials and products

Cut down travel time for people

Explain Entrepreneur

Organizes manages and takes a risk on a business

Example- Thomas Edison

What is Urbanization?

Migration of people to cities

Collective Bargaining is an agreement between whom?

Factory owner & Workers

What is Capitalism?

Economic system in which money is invested to make a profit

Adam Smith influenced this theory with his book The Wealth of Nations in 1776

Explain the difference between economic systems of Communism and Socialism

Communism- no private property Total control by government Socialism- only factories are owned

by government and operate for the welfare of all

Why did the southern states leave the union?

Abraham Lincoln was elected president

What is Manifest Destiny?

US belief that they should rule from the east to west coast of North America

The Mexican Cession-land that was acquired from Mexico after they lost the Mexican American War is an example

What did Charles Darwin write?

The Origin of Species Concept of survival of the fittest Evolution Theory- Natural Selection

What is the Gadsen Purchase?

Purchased from Mexico in 1853 Stretch of land from Colorado River

to Rio Grande

Queen Victoria was know for

Helping the poor through charity and supporting social reforms

Why is Athens important

Small city-state brought the world democracy

Explain the Caste system

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