Industrial Revolution Review

Inventor of the telephone...

• Eli Whitney

• Henry Ford

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

The ruling class as termed by Karl Marx.

• proletariat

• bourgeoisie

• aristocracy

• capitalism

This means that business should operate without government interference.

• bourgeoisie

• laiseez-faire

• capitalism

• socialism

He invented the method of interchangeable parts.

• Eli Whitney

• Henry Ford

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

Economy where individuals and private firms, not the government, own the production of goods/services - spurs competition.

• socialism

• capitalism

• domestic system

• laissez-faire

organization of workers formed to pressure business owners to improve wages and working conditions

• capitalism

• labor union

• socialism

• domestic system

Which of the following helped British farmers increase food production in the 1700s?

• reducing the size of their farms

• improved farm machinery

• crop rotation

• the availability of more farm workers

During the 1700s, the percentage of Europeans living in towns or cities was about...

• 10%

• 25%

• 50%

• 80%

Which of the following became an important source of power for the Industrial Revolution?

• the steam engine

• animals

• the windmill

• the dynamo

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• United States

• England

• Africa

• China