Unit 4 - Finance and Industrialization

How was the Industrial Revolution affecting child workers? (Choose all correct answers)

• physical injuries from machines

• worked on family farms

• worked long hours

• mistreated/beaten by managers/overseers

What is the name of the crowded, poorly constructed apartments due to mass urbanization?

• suburbs

• cottage

• tenements

• rural

Select all of the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution.

• pollution

• cheaper products

• poor living and working conditions

• creation of labor unions

Select all of the results of the work of labor unions during the Industrial Revolution.

• child labor

• shorter workdays

• better wages ($)

• safer working conditions

What is an organized mass refusal to work to force factory owners to meet labor unions demands?

• laissez-faire

• scarcity

• tenement

• strike

In which type of economy are prices determined by supply and demand?

• communism/command economy

• capitalism/free-market

• socialism

• mixed economy

What were the effects of the new agricultural methods and innovations during the Industrial Revolution?

• less farm workers needed

• world population decline

• world population growth

• more farm workers needed

Select all of the positive effects of the Industrial Revolution.

• new technologies

• cheaper products

• pollution

• eventual laws to improve living conditions

What is the name of public land that was sold for the private development of farming as a large-scale industry?

• scarcity

• entrepreneur

• cottage industry

• enclosure movement

What type of economic activity did many women participate in BEFORE the Industrial Revolution?

• cottage industry

• factory system

• industry

• labor unions