MWH Ch. 4 Test - Industrial Revolution

Who smashed machines and burned factories to protest working conditions?

A business owned by many stockholders

Process of taking over and combining lands formerly shared by peasant farmers

Opened textile machine factories in Belgium, spreading the Ind. Rev. out of Britain

Identical components that could be used in place of one another

What is a result of enclosure?

Which countries led the world in production in 1900?

Society as a group owns and operates farms and businesses

Who invented the automobile?

A middle class business owner that manages a new business

Economist who predicted that the population would outpace the food supply

Business wealth that is invested in new businesses or supplies

Who believed in the greatest happiness for the greatest number of its citizens?

Believed large working families contributed to lower wages and higher unemployment

Which does not explain why the I.R. began in Britain?

Which is not true about technology and industry in the late I.R.?

How did nobles increase food production during the agricultural revolution of the 1700s?

What was the focus of education reform in the late 1800s?

Economic idea that focuses on ending class struggle so the all can own all wealth and property

Utilitarian who believed the government should provide individual freedoms for the poor

What is the most important power source of the early I.R.?

Which of the following is not a reason corporations would form a cartel?

How did the middle class view the poor during the I.R.?

Which describes working-class women during the early I.R.?

Which of the following did not cause the population boom of the late 1700s?

Which is not an effect of industrialization on living & working conditions in early 1800s?

Who improved the original steam engine that became an important part of the I.R.?

The movement of people from the country to the cities

Who are the proletariat?

Which nation did not industrialize quickly?

Mill owner who worked for child labor laws