World History Ch. 9 Vocabulary – Grade 9

Choose the term that matches this definition: An American inventor who built a steam boat called the Clermont.

• Robert Fulton

• Eli Whitney

• Adam Smith

• Karl Marx

Choose the term that matches this definition: An American inventor who invented a machine to remove seeds from raw cotton, called the cotton gin.

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• Adam Smith

• Karl Marx

Choose the term that matches this definition: An economic system in which all means of production (land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses) are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally.

• communism

• industrialization

• corporation

• stock

Choose the term that matches this description: A Scottish professor who wrote The Wealth of Nations and is known as the “Father of Capitalism”.

• Adam Smith

• Karl Marx

• Robert Fulton

• Eli Whitney

Choose the term that matches this description: A German journalist who wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• Robert Fulton

• Eli Whitney

Choose the term that matches this definition: One of the fenced-in or hedged-in fields created by wealthy British landowners on land that was formerly worked by village farmers.

• enclosures

• crop rotation

• factors of production

• industrialization

Choose the term that matches this definition: The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land.

• crop rotation

• enclosures

• industrialization

• entrepreneur

Choose the term that matches this definition: The resources—including land, labor, and capital—needed to produce goods and services.

• factors of production

• stock

• corporation

• communism

Choose the term that matches this definition: The development of industries for the machine production of goods.

• industrialization

• crop rotation

• communism

• enclosures

Choose the term that matches this definition: A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.

• entrepreneur

• corporation

• stock

• communism