Industrial Revolution

The term laissez-faire roughly translates to mean

• leave alone

• resist

• freedom

• control

The ability to have necessities of life, such as food, clothing, and shelter and wants like vacations, concerts, and other amusements is referred to as

• middle class

• upper class

• standard of living

• purchasing power

During the Industrial Revolution, a new social and economic class that developed was the

• serfs

• rich, or the upper class

• expanded lower class

• middle class

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, which item was manufactured in great numbers at newly built factories?

• textiles

• industrial machines

• cars

• household goods like cookware

Which of the following best defines the term capital when referencing the Industrial Revolution?

• a city where industrial production increased, became an important city for a nation's economy

• money, equipment, and/or resources that were used in the production of goods

• a type of investment that helped a factory or business get started

• none of these best define capital

Which of the following best describes industrialization?

• nations began to rely on one another for trade of various goods and resources after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution

• smaller nations needed assistance from their larger neighbors, so they formed trade alliances

• more and more people began to move to cities, away from rural areas

• advancement in technology to produce goods on a larger scale and a reliance on manufacturing of goods instead of individuals producing goods themselves

A change from making goods at home by hand to making goods by machines.

• Capitalism

• Factory System

• Industrial Revolution

• Urbanization

The rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical objects.

• mass production

• factory system

• urbanization

• capitalism

The growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities.

• cottage industry

• factory system

• assembly line

• urbanization

Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Francis Cabbot Lowell

• Moses Brown