30 Making Industrial Flashcards
growing demand for cotton cloth in the eighteenth century threatened British
Wool producers
industrial revolution began in
G Britain
British Calico Acts of 1720 and 1721
Prohibited
Importation of cotton
The inventor of the flying shuttle was
John Kay
The invention of the flying shuttle
Sped
Weaving process
NOT a correct pairing of inventor and invention?
Josiah Wedgwood and “mule”
Edmund Cartwright was responsible for the invention of the
Power loom
James Watt invented a more efficient steam pump when he figured out how to
make a piston turn a wheel for rotary motion.
James Watt’s steam engine did not adapt well to transportation uses because
It consumed too much coal
Cheaper iron was produced after 1709 when British smelters began to use what substance as a fuel
Coke
Henry Bessemer’s innovations made it possible to produce cheaper
Steel
The first steam-powered locomotive was George Stephenson’s
Rocket
The dominant form of industrial organization by the end of the nineteenth century was
The factory system
The Luddites were
crafts workers who destroyed textile machines.
Interchangeable parts were invented by
Elli Whitney
In America the petroleum monopoly, Standard Oil Company, was owned by
John D Rockefeller
industrializing lands experienced a social change known as the demographic transition when
(Rate)
the fertility rate began a marked decline.
Marx and Engels proposed that capitalism divided people into two classes. The classes were
Capitalists and the proletariat
One of the authors of the Manifesto of the Communist Party was
Marx
Marx and Engels suggested that music, art, and literature served
the purposes of the capitalists because they diverted the workers from their misery.
Marx and the communists believed that private property
Should be abolished
Marx and Engels believed that the final result of the socialist revolution would be the
“dictatorship of the proletariat.”
Germany led European countries in the movement to provide
medical insurance and unemployment compensation for workers
Throughout most of the nineteenth century, employers and governments
viewed trade unions as illegal associations designed to restrain trade.
Over the long haul, trade unions
Reduced
likelihood of revolution by improving the lives of working people
Charles Fourier was
And often referred as
a social critic who is often referred to as a utopian socialist
By 1900, which was the largest city in the world?
London
The use of _____increased dramatically in the nineteenth century
Steel
Horizontal organization is
the consolidation or cooperation of independent companies in the same business
