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Chapter 9: Industrial Revolution Study Guide

Be able to define what is the Industrial Revolution. -

The industrial revolution started in the 18th and 19th century

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The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine

Identify the three factors of production. -

Land, labor, and capital

Be able to define the policy of laissez-faire. -

The economic policy of letting owners industry and business set working conditions without inference

Know the definition of a “union”. -

Asn act or instance of uniting or joining

How all the Agricultural Revolution lead to the Industrial Revolution. -

New farming techniques and improved livestock breeding led to amplified food production

Know what impact the steam engine had on Britain.

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The use of steam-powered machines in cotton productions pushed Britain’s economic development from 1750 to 1850. This would cause the first industrial revolution

Be able to identify how the Industrial revolution affected cities. -

Changed materials production, wealth, labor patterns, and population distribution

Know what impact did technological advances have on the industry. -

Technological advances increased the supply and demand, employment rate skyrocketed.

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Improved quality and size of production and Increase profits, generated other industrial improvements and reduces their price and increase in goods

Know the positive and negative aspects of industrialization. -

Made work cheaper, employed a thousand workers, and improved people’s daily lives,

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The exploitation of workers, overpopulation in urban cities, and environmental damages

Know what the long-term effects of Marx and Engels The Communist Manifesto? -

The proletarians of movements centered around the concept of proletariat

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Written by Karl Marx in 1848 argued that all societies have always been divided into one class. The abolition of private property, and the lack of need for government would secured peace and progress

Capitalism is this type of economic model.

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A mixed economy

Socialism is this type of economic model. -

Command economy

Be able to define “strike”. -

a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.

Be able to define “lockout”. -

the exclusion of employees by their employer from their place of work until certain terms are agreed to.

Know what Wilbur Wilberforce did as a member of Parliament -

Wanted slavery abolished .

Extended Response Questions

What made 18th-century Great Britain ideal for rapid and revolutionary industrialization? -

Access to raw materials, trade routes and partners, social changes, and a stable government

Why might the philosophy of communism have appealed to many 19th-century factory workers? -

Communism appealed to them because it would better their own lifestyles

Do you think the concept of complete reliance on a free-market system, using 19th-century Britain as a model, worked well? Explain. They did not have government control, which they believed was a wonderful concept, but they did not have very high pay for the employees. They had risky employment, and many youngsters were compelled to work. The disabled had difficulty finding work. -

What are the risks of going on strike? What are the potential rewards if a strike is successful, what are the consequences? -

Striking imposes cost on the employees the employers and the entire economy may suffer loss when they are during strike...