Industrial Revolution Review

The process in which a society transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services.

• Urbanization
• Industrialization
• Steam Engine
• Thomas Malthus

The shift of population migrating from rural to urban areas.

• Urbanization
• Agricultural Revolution
• Industrialization
• Socialism

A British writer who argued that population growth would eventually outstrip humans' ability to feed themselves.

• Thomas Malthus
• Charles Darwin
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Agricultural Revolution

A device for transmitting sound via electric wires, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.

• Steam Engine
• Telephone
• Socialism

A political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote.

• Charles Darwin
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Irish Potato Famine
• Louis Pasteur

A French biologist who proposed the germ theory of disease.

• Charles Darwin
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Irish Potato Famine
• Louis Pasteur

An English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.

• Charles Darwin
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Irish Potato Famine
• Louis Pasteur

Bands of workers in England who came together to destroy manufacturing machinery.

• Luddites
• Railroad
• Communism
• Laissez-Faire

A policy that allows businesses to operate with very little interference from the government (French for “let it go”).

• Luddites
• Railroad
• Communism
• Laissez-Faire

A system in which all property is owned collectively, first proposed by Karl Marx.

• Communism
• Socialism