Industial Vocab

Question 0

Assembly line

Answer 0

Production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks

Question 1

Anesthetic

Answer 1

Drug that prevents pain during surgery

Question 2

Capital

Answer 2

Money or wealth

Question 3

Capitalism

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Economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit

Question 4

Cartel

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Association of large corporations formed to fix prices, set production quotas or divide up markets

Question 5

Communism

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Form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx class struggle was inevitable and would lead to the creation of a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole

Question 6

Corporation

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Business owned by many investors who buy shares and risk only the amount of their investment

Question 7

Enclosure

Answer 7

In England in the 1700s the process of taking over and fencing off public lands

Question 8

Factory

Answer 8

Place in which workers and machines are brought together to produce large quantities of goods

Question 9

Germ theory

Answer 9

Idea that certain microbes might cause specific infectious diseases

Question 10

Impressionism

Answer 10

School of painting of the 1800s and early 1900s that tried to capture fleeing visual impressions

Question 11

Interchangeable parts

Answer 11

Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing labor union worker organization

Question 12

Lassez faire

Answer 12

Policy allowing business to operate with little or no government interference

Question 13

Means of production

Answer 13

Farms factories railways and other large businesses that produce and distribute goods

Question 14

Mutual and society

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Self help group set up to aid sick or injured workers

Question 15

Proletariat

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Working class

Question 16

Racism

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Belief that one racial group is superior to another

Question 17

Realism

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Artistic movement who’s aim was to represent the world as it is

Question 18

Romanticism

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19th cent artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason

Question 19

Smelt

Answer 19

Melt in order to get the pure metal away from its waste matter

Question 20

Social gospel

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Movement of the 1800s that urged Christians to do social service

Question 21

Socialism

Answer 21

System in which the people as a whole rather than private individuals own all property and operate all businesses

Question 22

Standard of living

Answer 22

Measures the quantity and availability of necessities and comforts in a society

Question 23

Stock

Answer 23

Shares in a company

Question 24

Temperance movement

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Campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages

Question 25

Tenement building

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Multistory building divided into crowded apartments

Question 26

Turnpike

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Privately built road that charges a fee to travelers who use it

Question 27

Urban removal

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Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city

Question 28

Urbanization

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Movement of people from rural areas to cities

Question 29

Utilitarianism

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Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people

Question 30

Women’s suffrage

Answer 30

Right for women to vote