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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 Rotation

Answer 2

the action or system of rotating crops.

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. … This time period saw the mechanization of agriculture and textile manufacturing and a revolution in power, including steam ships and railroads, that effected social, cultural and economic conditions.

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. In an early engineering text a machine is defined as follows: … In some fields, mechanization includes the use of hand tools.

Question 6

Factory System

Answer 6

Definition of factory system. : the system of manufacturing that began in the 18th century with the development of the power loom and the steam engine and is based on concentration of industry into large establishments —contrasted with domestic system.

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 piece of land held by an owner

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

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Strikes

Answer 14

a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.

Question 15

Unions

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Collective

Answer 16

a cooperative enterprise.

Question 17

Bargaining

Answer 17

negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.

Question 18

Eli Whitney

Answer 18

Eli Whitney 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

He invented the steam engine which started most of the advances at the time.

Question 20

Henry Bessemer

Answer 20

He found new ways too use steel.

Question 21

Richard Arkwright

Answer 21

Sir Richard Arkwright was an inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.

Question 22

Robert fulton

Answer 22

American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton is best know for developing the first successful commercial steamboat, the North River Steamboat (later known as the Clermont) which carried passengers between New York City and Albany, New York. Fulton also designed the world’s first steam warship.

Question 23

Samuel Morse

Answer 23

Samuel Finley Breese Morse 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

Answer 24

Henry Ford 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

he is about fincial working the 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

Answer 28

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. 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

Answer 30

a type of cloth or woven fabric.

Question 31

Middle class

Answer 31

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

Answer 34

John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy.