What raw materials were plentiful in European countries that helped advance the Industrial Revolution?

What industries were growing at very high rates during the early industrial revolution? These would also be good job opportunities.

The process of an area growing larger, with an increase in population, production of goods and services, and availability of a variety of options to fulfill one's wants and needs is called

The ability to have necessities of life, such as food, clothing, and shelter and wants like vacations, concerts, and other amusements is referred to as

The four factors of production that were vital to the Industrial Revolution and the start of any business include each of the following EXCEPT

During the Industrial Revolution, a new social and economic class that developed was the

Which of the following best describes industrialization?

Why was England the site of the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution?

Which idea is most closely associated with laissez faire economics?

Adam Smith would most likely agree with which statement?

Laissez-faire capitalism as attributed to Adam Smith called for

Which characteristic is associated with an economy based on the principles of laissez-faire?

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations stressed the importance of

What is a key principle of a market economy?

Which heading best completes the partial outline below?

I. ___________________________________

A. Market system

B. Profit incentive

C. Entrepreneurs

During the 1800s, the writings of Marx, Engels, and Dickens focused attention on the problems faced by

“. . . They [the Communists] openly declare that their ends can be attained [achieved] only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!”

— Friederich Engels and Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, 1848 from the NYS Global History and Geography Regents Exam, August 2002.

These views, expressed by Engels and Marx, were developed in reaction to the

Where did Karl Marx predict a revolution of the proletariat would occur first?

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels encouraged workers to improve their lives by

In the late 1800s, one response of workers in England to unsafe working conditions was to

Karl Marx predicted that laissez-faire capitalism would result in

Speaker A:Government should not interfere in relations between workers and business owners.

Speaker B:The workers will rise up and overthrow the privileged class.

Speaker C:Private property will cease to exist. The people will own the means of production.

Speaker D:A favorable balance of trade should be maintained by the use of tariffs.

Which two speakers represent Karl Marx’s ideas of communism?

In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels expressed the idea that

Laissez-faire economists of the 19th century

argued that

“. . . A place more destitute of all interesting

objects than Manchester, it is not easy to

conceive. In size and population it is the second city in the kingdom, containing above fourscore thousand [80,000] inhabitants. Imagine this multitude crowded together in narrow streets, the houses all built of brick and blackened with smoke; frequent buildings among them as large as convents, without their antiquity, without their

beauty, without their holiness; where you hear from within, as you pass along, the everlasting din of machinery; and where when the bell rings it is to call wretches to their work instead of their prayers, . . . ”

— Robert J. Southey, Letters from England, 1807

The conditions described in this passage occurred during the

Which two major ideas are contained in the

writings of Karl Marx?

Which event had the greatest influence on the development of laissez-faire capitalism?