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Where did the Industrial Revolution begin

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Britian

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What did the Industrial Revolution have a strong impact on

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economics, politics, and safety

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What greatly increased the output of machine-made goods

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The Industrial Revolution

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What was it called when large farm fields are enclosed by fences or hedges

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Enclosures

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5
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Who bought enclosed land, once owned by village farmers

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wealthy landowners

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What did Enclosures allow

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experimentation with new agricultural methods

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What is the switching of crops each year to avoid depleting the soil

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crop rotation

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8
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Why did livestock breeders only allow the best to breed

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improve food supply

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9
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What is the move to machine production of goods

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Industrialization

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10
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What natural resources did Britain have

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coal, iron, rivers, and harbors

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What did the Expanding economy in Britain encourage

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investment

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12
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What is land, labor, and capital

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factors of production

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13
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What did weavers use to work faster

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flying shuttle and spinning jenny

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14
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What did the water frame use to drive spinning wheels

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water power

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15
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what is a spinning mule that sped up production

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Power loom

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16
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What are buildings that contain machinery for manufacturing

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factories

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17
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what boosted American cotton production to meet british demand

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Cotton Gin

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18
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Who developed the Steam Engine

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James Watt

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19
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Who is someone who organizes, manages, and takes business risks

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Entrepreneur

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20
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Who built the first steamboat

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Robert Fulton

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21
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What did the system of canals do

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it improved England’s water transport

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22
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What did companies operate the roads as

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toll roads

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23
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Who built the first steam-driven locomotive

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Richard Trevithick

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24
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Who built the world’s first railroad line

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George Stephenson

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25
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Who built a railroad from Liverpool to Manchester

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Entrepreneurs

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26
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What was Stephenson’s Rocket acknowledged as

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best locomotive

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27
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What did Railroads spur

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industrial growth

28
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What did cheaper transportation boost

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many industries

29
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What did the Industrial Revolution lead to

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economic, political, and social reforms

30
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What is an economic policy of not interfering with businesses

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Laissez-faire

31
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Who did laissez-faire originate with

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Enlightenment economic philosophers

32
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Who was a defender of free markets

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Adam Smith

33
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What book did Adam Smith write

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The Wealth of Nations

34
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Adam Smith believed that economic liberty guarantees what

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economic progress

35
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What are economic natural laws

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self-interest, competition, and supply and demand

36
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Who (2 people) boosted Laissez-faire capitalism

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Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo

37
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What is a system a privately owned businesses seeking profit

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Capitalism

38
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Who thinks that population grows faster than food supply

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Malthus

39
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who envisioned a permanent, poor underclass providing cheap labor

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Ricardo

40
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What is it when you judge things by their usefulness

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utilitarianism

41
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Who favored regulation to help workers,spread wealth

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John Stuart Mill

42
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Who improved working conditions

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Robert Owen

43
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What are factors of production owned by, operated for the people

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Socialism

44
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Who thinks that the government control can end poverty , bring equality

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Socialists

45
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Who was a german journalist who proposed a radical socialism

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Karl Marx

46
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Who was a German, whose father owns a Manchester textile Mill

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Friedrich Engels

47
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Who believed that capitalism will eventually destroy itself

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Karl Marx

48
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What caused workers to revolt, seize factories and mills

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Inequality

49
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What is a society where people own, share the means of production

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Communism

50
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Where did Marx’s ideas later take root in

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Russia, China, and Cuba

51
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Who believed society is divided into warring classes

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Marx and Engels

52
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What is another word for “haves”

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bourgeoisie

53
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What is another word for the “have-nots”

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proletariat

54
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who predicted that the workers will overthrow the owners

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Marx and Engels

55
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What are associations formed by laborers to work for change

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Unions

56
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What did Unions negotiate

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a better pay

57
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What does it mean to call a work stoppage

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strike

58
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What kind of workers are first to form unions

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Skilled workers

59
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What did the U.S have to fight for

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the right to form unions

60
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What were some union goals

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higher wages, shorter hours, and improved conditions

61
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What did the U.S eventually end

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child labor

62
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What did U.S. pass laws to stop

A

worst abuses of industrialization

63
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How many hours were the children limited too

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10 hours

64
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Who helped end slavery

A

reformers

65
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Who pursued economic and social rights

A

women

66
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What was the name of the worldwide membership founder in 1888

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International Council for Women

67
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Who established free public schools

A

reformers

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