Industrial Revolution Unit Flashcards
What contributions did Henry Bessemer make during the Industrial Revolution?
- Significantly reduced the price of steel
- Improved the quality and manufacture of steel
- Improved steel quality
What was the economic system in which a government would take control of industries and convert them to ownership by the workers?
Socialism
Reasons that the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain
- Entreuprenuership
- Abundance of labor
- Capital to invest
- Natural Resources
What did Adam Smith support?
Laissez-faire
Which event most allowed the Industrial Revolution to happen?
Agricultural Revolution
The first factories in Great Britain developed in what industry?
Textiles
Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it created what?
Prosperity for a few and poverty for many
What was a long-term result of the Industrial Revolution?
A general rise in the standard of living
According to socialists, what was the solution to poverty and injustice?
Shared ownership by the people of the means of production
Whose work with the germ theory began to lead to more sanitation & better health in the Industrial cities?
Louis Pasteur
More jobs & more production was just one of the positive impacts of which invention?
Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb
What were the Enclosure Acts?
Peasant farmer fields were turned into larger fields that were fenced in
What was Social Darwinism?
Survival of the fittest
Explain Labor unions
Worker mutual- aid societies
