Semester One Final Review

What is the movement of people from farms to cities?

• Utilitarianism

• Urbanization

• Proletariat

• Enclosure Movement

A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.

• Cartel

• Corporation

• Factory

• Urbanization

__________ is known as the Father of modern economics, who theorized Laissez-Faire, the idea that the market should have no political interventions?

• Adam Smith

• Karl Marx

• Thomas Malthus

• Frederick Engels

In which European country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• France

• Britian

• Prussia

• Spain

Some of the machines invented in the 18th and 19th centuries are:

• telephones, geographic positioning system, radios, airplanes

• steam engine, railroads, flying shuttle, phonograph, steam ships, light bulb

• sailboats, automobiles, wheel barrels, clocks, word processors

• automatic washer, hair dryer, rockets, space shuttles

__________________ predicted a violent revolution that would result in the working class taking over in a classless political and economic systems known as communism.

• John Adams

• Thomas Smith

• Karl Marx

• Edward Jenner

During the period from 1880 to 1920, the majority of immigrants to the United States settled in urban areas in the North. What was the primary reason for this trend?

• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

• Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.

• The Populist Party was successful in preventing immigrants from buying farmland.

• Rapid industrialization created many job opportunities.

As a result of increased immigration to the United States in the late 19th century, many immigrant families lived in tenements because

• there was a lack of affordable housing in overcrowded cities.

• there was inadequate housing on the Great Plains.

• they wanted to avoid living in ethnic neighborhoods.

• the federal government provided immigrants with free housing.

A reason some businesses hired children was:

• To provide the children a bright future and opportunities

• So they could save money by paying the children less money

• So the children could take care of the heavy labor required for their business

• To improve their public image

Powerful companies like Standard Oil that had control over the majority of the industry they were involved in and controlled many businesses related to their own can be called

• Labor Unions

• Monopolies

• Start-ups

• Urbanization