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| Marxist Communism | economic system in which workers control the businesses (means of production) |
| socialism/communism in practice | economic system in which the businesses are controlled by the government. |
| investment capital | Money used to buy resources, factories and machines. You cannot industrialize without it. |
| Enclosure Acts | Sold off the common pastures in Britain. Forced small farmers out of business. They became the first factory workers |
| middle class | they are the first factory owners and benefit from the IR the most |
| laissez-faire capitalism | individuals own the business and the government CANNOT interfere. |
| women of IR | worked for 1/2 the wages of men, long hours and still cared for home& family |
| Agricultural Rev. | you HAVE to have this before you industrialize - or factory workers would starve. |
| urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to the cities. Increased with industrialization. |
| Malthus | Predicted the world's population will outdistance the food supply. |
| Malthus is wrong b/c | technology continues to allow us to produce more food with less workers. |
| reason for creation of socialism and communism | mistreatment of the workers/proletariat by the factory owners/ bourgeoisie |
| free market | capitalism... supply and demand run the economy. Individual competitive self-interest guides the economy |
| nationalism | part of the reason that Marx's prediction of a Workers Revolution of the World will not occur. Our workers will not unite with China's , etc. |
| cottage industry | families produced goods at home.... shut down by larger machines that only fit in "factories" |
| Pollution | Increased rapidly with industrialized, especially burning fossil fuels |
| infrastructure | a nation's communication and transportation system |
| Benefits of IR | increased standard of living and leisure time, better health and sanitaiton |
| Neolithic Revolution | first agricultural revolution, domesticated plants and animals |
| Decribe working conditions in factories of the early Industrial Revolution | please explain at least one horrible happening from the Child labor website you visited |
| Explain one reason Britain was able to be the first to industrialize | 1. the Agricultural Revolution and their Enclosure Acts helped force small farmers out of business and increase the population - bothe create a labor force for the IR |
| Explain one reason Britain was able to be the first to industrialize | 2. access to naural resources (coal and iron at home) and other resources/markets in their colonies |
| Explain one reason Britain was able to be the first to industrialize | 3. available investment capital - from their colonial trade, especially in slaves. Also Protestants can charge interst when they loan money |
| Explain one reason Britain was able to be the first to industrialize | 4. the led the Scientific Revolution, which led to the creation of machines for industry |
| define urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to cities |
| cause of urbanization | search for factory jobs - by out of work farmers and people from cottage industries |
| result | overcrowding, disease, pollution, alcoholism rates increase (don't discuss factory issues here, just living conditions) |
| Explain one thing that eventually improved conditions in the cities | Pick on of these and expalin.... Zoning, green areas, wider streets, sewers, lighting, skyscrapers |
| Explain one reason why population has increased so much in the last 200 years. | NOT and increased birth rate! Pick one of these and explain.... food, medicine, hygiene/sanitation Make sure you explain... |
| Explain how the Scientific Revolution, Commercial Revolution or the Agricultural Revoltion helped cause the IR | The answer to the Agricultural Revoltion is in #21 if you look at the list of terms. Scientific Rev. causes IR b/c it encourages experimentation/observation needed to create the machines of the new factories. The Commercial Revolution begun in the late Middle Ages, began a system of banking, that eventually enables people to get investment capital for their businesses. |
