Industrial Revolution Review

Name
______________________________________
1. The period of rapid industrial growth starting around 1750 was
called:____________________
2. Explain the enclosure movement.

3. Three reasons why the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain:

4. In what industry did the factory system begin?

_________________________________________
5. The Business cycle can best be defined as alternating periods of
________________________& ______________________________________.
6. List three ways in which machines affected work:
a.
b.
c.
7. Why would factory owners prefer to hire women and children?
___________________________
8. Define Tenements:
9. Because the balance of economic power shifted from agriculture to
manufacturing, what happened to the middle class
_____________________________________________________
10.Bankers, Doctors, and lawyers belonged to what class?
_________________________________
11.What were Women who worked in factories also expected to do?
________________________
12.In a __________________________ ___economy, the individual owns the factors of
production.
13.In which economic system are the prices set by supply and demand:
Capitalist or Socialist?
14.In which economic system are the prices set by the government: Capitalist or
Socialist?
15.Whose economic theory stated: Agriculture and manufacturing are the keys
to increasing wealth
_______________________________________________________________________
16.According to him, prices would be lower and quality would be higher with
more ____________
______________________________________________________________________________
17.Government should not regulate business, Supply and demand should
control prices, & tariffs should be eliminated were all Ideas of
_____________________ _______ economic theory.
18.Who worked to improve working conditions?
________________________________________
19.What caused the growth of cities?
_________________________________________________

Industrial Revolution Review

Name
______________________________________
20.Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
_____________________________________________
21.Who helped the ind. rev. by inventing a way to bring water power to the
factory _____________
22.The internal combustion engine led to the development of
the___________________________.
23.Interchangeable parts led to
_______________________________________________________
24.What two theorists believed Capitalism should be destroyed?
___________________________
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