Industrial revolution

Question 1

Enclosure Movement

Answer 1

The enclosure movement was this: wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers, then benefited from economies of scale in farming huge tracts of land. The enclosure movement led to improved crop production, such as the rotation of crops.

Question 2

Crop rotatation

Answer 2

the action of rotating around an axis or center.

Question 3

Industrial Revolution

Answer 3

The Industrial Revolution is the name given the movement in which machines changed people’s way of life as well as their methods of manufacture.

Question 4

Factors of production

Answer 4

The factors of production are resources that are the building blocks of the economy; they are what people use to produce goods and services. Economists divide the factors of production into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.

Question 5

mechanization.

Answer 5

Mechanization or mechanisation (British English) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.

Question 6

Factory system

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The factory system is a mode of capitalist production that emerged in the late eighteenth century as a result of England’s Industrial Revolution.

Question 7

Cottage industry

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a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person’s home.

Question 8

entrepreneur

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a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

Question 9

Tenements

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a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.

Question 10

Mass production

Answer 10

Mass production”, “flow production” or “continuous production” is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines.

Question 11

Fordism

Answer 11

Fordism is a term widely used to describe (1) the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company or (2) the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order in advanced capitalism

Question 12

Corporation

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a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

Question 13

Monopoly

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the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

Question 14

Strikes

Answer 14

hit forcibly and deliberately with one’s hand or a weapon or other implement.

Question 15

Unions

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the action or fact of joining or being joined, especially in a political context.

Question 16

collective

Answer 16

done by people acting as a group.

Question 17

bargraining

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negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.

Question 18

Eli Whitney

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Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

Question 19

James Watt

Answer 19

The watt (symbol: W) is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units (SI), named after the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736–1819). The unit is defined as 1 joule per second and can be used to express the rate of energy conversion or transfer with respect to time.

Question 20

Henry Bessemer

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Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century

Question 21

Richard arkright

Answer 21

It was able to spin 128 threads at a time, which was an easier and faster method than ever before. It was developed by Richard Arkwright, who patented the technology in 1767.

Question 22

Robert Fulton

Answer 22

Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Claremont

Question 23

Samuel Morse

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

Question 24

Henry ford

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Question 25

Jp Morgon

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John Pierpont “J. P.” Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in late 19th and early 20th Century United States.

Question 26

Immigration

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the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

Question 27

Leisure

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use of free time for enjoyment.

Question 28

emigration

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the act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

Question 29

Push and Pull factors

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Push and pull factors are those factors which either forcefully push people into migration or attract them. A push factor is forceful, and a factor which relates to the country from which a person migrates. It is generally some problem which results in people wanting to migrate.

Question 30

Textiles

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a type of cloth or woven fabric.

Question 31

middle class

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the social group between the upper and working classes, including professional and business workers and their families.

Question 32

Jane Addam

Answer 32

Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women’s suffrage and world peace.

Question 33

Child labor laws

Answer 33

The federal child labor provisions, authorized by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938, also known as the child labor laws, were enacted to ensure that when young people work, the work is safe and does not jeopardize their health, well-being or educational opportunities.

Question 34

Stuart mill

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John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant.

Question 35

Utilitarianism

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Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility. “Utility” is defined in various ways, usually in terms of the well-being of sentient entities, such as human beings and other animals.

Question 36

Meji Restoration

Answer 36

The Meiji Restoration (明治維新 Meiji Ishin ?), also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was a chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.