TCI 17.1 review

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This term refers to the system of employment where a worker sells their labor to an employer in exchange for wages

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wage labor

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This term refers to farming that does not provide much return to the farmer (where farmers typically only grow enough to feed themselves and their families).

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subsistence farming

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According to economist Henry George, the people being crushed by the transformations of the Industrial Revolution were:

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the working class

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Workers in the Industrial Revolution typically worked _____ days a week, ______ hours per day, and earned ______ each day.

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6 days a week, 12 hours per day, and earned $1 each day.

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This term refers to a small factory where employees work long hours under poor conditions for low wages

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sweatshop

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Before the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing took place largely in ____________, but then ___________ became the center of manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution.

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the countryside, towns

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Throughout the 1800s, which country was a major destination for immigrants?

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The United States

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This term refers to a run-down, often over-crowded and unsanitary, apartment building

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tenement