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.

Question 2

Crop Rotation

Answer 2

the action of rotating around an axis or center.

Question 3

Industrial Revolution

Answer 3

The Industrial Revolution was a period of major industrialization that took place during the late 1700s and early 1800s.

Question 4

Factors of Production

Answer 4

Factors of production is an economic term that describes the inputs that are used in the production of goods or services in order to make an economic profit.

Question 5

Mechanization

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

the system of manufacturing that began in the 18th century with the development of the power loom

Question 7

Cottage Industry

Answer 7

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

Question 8

entrepreneur

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

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 is the manufacture of large quantities of standardized products, frequently utilizing assembly line technology.

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

Answer 12

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

Answer 13

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

Answer 15

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

Bargaining

Answer 17

negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.

Question 18

Eli Whitney

Answer 18

Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.

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).

Question 20

Henry Bessemer

Answer 20

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 Arkwright

Answer 21

Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 in Preston – 3 August 1792 in Cromford) was an inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.

Question 22

Robert Fulton

Answer 22

Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) 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

Answer 23

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter and inventor.

Question 24

Henry Ford

Answer 24

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 Morgan

Answer 25

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Leisure

Answer 27

free time

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

Answer 29

Push and pull factors are those factors which either forcefully push people into migration or attract them.

Question 30

Textiles

Answer 30

a type of cloth or woven fabric.