Those who manage and assume the financial risk of new business.
Improved the steam engine in the late 1700s.
A business organization in areas such as shipping, mining, or factories.
A drug that prevents pain during surgery, patented by a dentist.
A private toll road.
The first factories developed in what industry?
During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?
The cotton gin was a machine that could…
Which invention most affected imports?
In the early 1700s, Abraham Darby’s experiments led him to …
Land enclosure in the 1600s and 1700s resulted in …
Abraham Darby made better quality iron by …
Steam became an efficient power source because of improvements made by…
The putting-out system was a method of …
The development of steam power enabled the growth of …
In what way were railroads an improvement over canals?
The slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in Britain by …
The movement of people to cities …
An apartment building for the working class.
The Luddites were a …
What wee the causes of urbanization in the 1700s?
The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the …
Most early factory workers were women because …
Laws called “factory acts” were passed in the early 1800s to …
What was a long-term result of the Industrial Revolution?
Utopian socialist who set up a model community in New Lanark, Scotland.
The working class.
Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it …
Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because …
Germany formed a social democracy in the 1860s to change gradually.
What best describes David Ricardo’s “Iron Law of Wages?”
“The greatest happiness for the greatest number” was a goal of …
Which group established communities where all work is shared and all property is owned in common?
According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was …
According to socialist, the solution to poverty and injustice was …
Jeremy Bentham believed that …