Topic 4 Vocabulary Quiz: The Industrial Revolution

period beginning in the 1700s in which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machinery and sources of energy shifted from human or animal power to steam and electricity

• Impressionism
• Guglielmo Marconi
• entrepreneur
• Industrial Revolution

money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise

• social democracy
• tenement
• Enclosure movement
• capital

Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819).

• James Watt
• Methodism
• free market
• Industrial Revolution

person who assumes financial risk in the hope of making a profit

• Florence Nightingale
• social democracy
• Impressionism
• entrepreneur

A branch of socialism that emphasizes exploitation and class struggle and includes both communism and other approaches.

• Louis Pasteur
• Social Darwinism
• germ theory
• Marxism

multi-story building divided into crowded apartments

• socialism
• tenement
• Social Gospel Movement
• Emmaline Pankhurst

the process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers

• Methodism
• Realism
• Social Gospel Movement
• Enclosure movement

Complete control of a product or business by one person or group

• Marxism
• socialism
• monopolies
• Communist Manifesto

market regulated by the natural laws of supply and demand

• free market
• Communist Manifesto
• Social Gospel Movement
• Louis Pasteur

A socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1848) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views. This book and viewpoint sparked revolution and uprisings among the working class.

• James Watt
• dynamo
• Communist Manifesto
• free market