partial exam industrial revolution

Question 1

pre conditions for the industrial revolution

Answer 1

• drastic increase in world trade
• increased flow of money
• experienced managers and entrepreneurs
• rising population due to medical advancements
• development of new technologies such as electricity and steam engine
• scientific revolution
• creation of urban societies

Question 2

england 1780

Answer 2

• agricultural revolution brings improvements
• increase of food supply led to population increase
• supply of money (capital) to invest in new machines and factories.
• key raw materials (coal)
• supply of markets (colonies)
• transportation (rivers)

Question 3

invents the spinning jenny

Answer 3

James Hargreaves

Question 4

improved the steam engine

Answer 4

James Watt

Question 5

Factors needed for Industrialization

Answer 5

LAND
LABOR
CAPITAL

Question 6

the first
to industrialize in continental Europe

Answer 6

Belgium, France, and Germany

fostered development
and provided funds to build roads, canals,
and railroads.

Question 7

the first to industrialize overseas

Answer 7

United States

Steamboats and railroads made
transportation of goods across the country

Question 8

Effects of Industrialization: SOCIAL IMPACT

Answer 8

• two new social classes were created
  industrial middle class: people who built, bought and developed factories and machines.
  industrial working class: people who worked in the factories
• capitalism
• Industrial capitalism
• Population growth and Urbanization
• war and major epidemic diseases led to the increase of population
• ## greater food supply

Question 9

what is capitalism?

Answer 9

an economic system based on trade (private owners)

Question 10

what is industrial capitalism?

Answer 10

economic system based on industrial
production

Question 11

what is urbanization?

Answer 11

people migrate from the countryside to cities to work in factories

disaster because it led to overpopulation

Question 12

Working Conditions and Environmental
Impact

Answer 12

• worked 14-16 hrs per day
• women earned 1/6 of the pay
• fired by things like being sick
• children worked 8hrs/6days

Question 13

1833 Factory Act

Answer 13

9 minimum age to work
Limited hours for older boys

Question 14

Socio-Political Concepts

Answer 14

• Socialism: economic system where society, usually in the
  form of the government, owns and controls some means
  of production such as factories and utilities
• Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels

Question 15

Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels

Answer 15

• Communist Manifiesto and Capital
• ultimate goal was a communist society
• private means of production abolished and men and women would be equal and free to develop their full potential
• society split into two classes: bourgeoisie(middle class, oppressors) and proletariat
  (working class, oppressed).
• “The free development of each is the condition for the free development
  of all”

Question 16

what is communism?

Answer 16

a social, political and economic ideology
and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment
of a communist society, structured upon the common
ownership of the means of production.

Question 17

what is anarchism?

Answer 17

theory that equality and justice are to be
sought through the abolition of the state and the
substitution of free agreements between individuals.

Question 18

what is syndicalism?

Answer 18

a system of economic organization in which
industries are owned and managed by the workers.”

Question 19

what is corporation?

Answer 19

a legal entity that is separate and distinct
from its owners.

Question 20

economic effects

Answer 20

• new inventions
• developement of factories
• industry growing
• increased production and higher demands
• growth of worldwide trade
• population explosion
• explotation of mineral resources
• highly developed banking and investment system
• advances in transport, agriculture

Question 21

social effects

Answer 21

• long hours worked by children
• increase of population in cities
• poor city planning
• loss of family stability
• expansion of middle class
• harsh conditions for laborers
• improved standard of living
• creation of new jobs
• tehnological progress

Question 22

political effects

Answer 22

• child labor laws to end abuse
• reformers urging for equal distribution of wealth
• trade unions
• social reform movements
• reform bills in parliament