industrial revolution

Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Great Britain?

• large supply of human and natural resources

• increasing power of laboring class

• high quality of public education

• eagerness of nobility to become factory owners

Which is a economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit

• Capitalism
• Communism
• Socialism
• Capitalistical

Economic System founded by Karl Marx; class struggle inevitable and led to creation of classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole

• Capitalism
• Communism
• Socialism
• Russianism

During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?

• Migrated from cities to work in villages
• Didn’t change and continued to farm
• Had very little skills in the workplace and were mostly homeless
• People migrated from rural areas to cities.

Which 2 natural resources were the backbone of the Industrial Revolution?

• wood and peat
• oil and natural gas
• coal and iron
• cotton and tobacco

Which innovation allowed factories to be built anywhere?

• flying shuttle
• spinning jenny
• cotton gin
• steam engine

The Wealth of Nations was written by... 

• Karl Marx
• James Watt
• Louis Pasteur
• Adam Smith

Why were textile factories located near rivers and streams?

• Easier travel time to and from factories
• It made it easier to transport the finished product
• Energy from waterwheels powered the machines 
• Humidity from the water softened the wool thread

__________________ is the process in which the population shift from rural to urban areas

• Industrialization 
• Urbanization 
• Segregation 
• Pollution 

Laissez-faire is a policy that 

• allowed labor to set working conditions based on votes.
• let owners of industry set working conditions without government interference.
• created committees to set working standards without interference from industry owners. 
• taught owners of industry how to set working conditions based on government standards.