History Test 3
Effects the Crusades had in sparking the industrial age included:
revived interest in trade revived interest in business increased desire to be prosperous and productive
People who individually bought ownership in a corporation were called:
stockholders
Patterns monasteries established for helping industry included:
strict discipline specific work responsibilities
Communists:
support a type of socialism believe that the working class would overcome through force seek to set up a future ideal socialist government
Steel is iron:
that has certain minerals added
Telephone
Bell
Steam locomotive
Cooper
Tom Thumb
Cooper
Improved road surface
Cumberland road
Steel plow
Deere
True/false Karl Marx endorsed a laissez-faire policy in economics.
False
True/false Money for the growth of United States' industry was supplied by Southern plantation owners.
False
True/false Stockholders chose directors and enforced company policies.
False
True/false The Embargo Act reduced production in the United States.
False
True/false The United States' first canal connected Lake Erie with the Ohio River.
False
transatlantic cable
Field
Assembly-line production
Ford
Steamboat
Fulton
the Clermont
Fulton
printing press
Gutenberg
spinning jenny
Hargreaves
Sewing machine
Howe
Changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution included:
Increased production Cheaper goods Better products
flying shuttle
Kay
Factors improving the lives of factory workers included:
Labor improvement laws, labor unions, and books by Dickens and Disraeli
Cotton cloth factory
Lowell
Reaping machine
McCormick
Name two sources of power available to industry by the early 1900s.
Oil and electricity were available to industry by the early 1900s.
Steamships
The Clermont
Direct water route
The Erie Canal
What advantages did the steam engine bring to industry?
The steam engine did not need to be built by water, was more affordable, and increased production.
Grain production
Thresher and reaper
Peter Cooper
Tom Thumb
True/false Before the Industrial Revolution, craftsmen commonly worked at home.
True
True/false Dickens wrote about deplorable factory conditions in England.
True
True/false Employers lost money during strikes even though workers were not paid during strikes.
True
True/false Ford's assembly-line production greatly reduced cost per unit.
True
True/false Immigrants supplied a large amount of the workforce in factories.
True
True/false Labor unions gave a voice against employer abuse to factory workers.
True
True/false Major goals of corporations were to eliminate competition and to increase profits.
True
True/false Many skilled workers and artisans left their trades and went to work in the factories.
True
True/false New Englanders grew wealthy from shipbuilding and trading.
True
True/false Steam locomotives provided a faster and safer means of transporting goods.
True
True/false The first national road in America was called the Cumberland Road.
True
True/false The production of goods by trained workers was necessary for trade to increase.
True
True/false The system of standardized parts made possible the replacing of broken or worn parts instead of replacing the whole product.
True
True/false Unemployment was feared by early laborers.
True
True/false Unions organized and represented laborers in demanding increases in factory pay.
True
Factories were first powered by ... then changed to ... power.
Water Steam
Cotton gin
Whitney
Standardized parts
Whitney
cotton gin
Whitney
Iron plow
Wood
The basic requirements needed by a nation for industrial growth are:
Work Force Natural resources Sufficient Capital
The following industrial advantages enabled England to lead the way in Europe's Industrial Revolution:
a sufficient work force enough natural resources enough willing investors to invest in industry
Factors giving rise to the theories of Marx included:
abuses dealt to the working class, poor conditions under which laborers lived and worked, employers taking advantage of employees, lack of profits given employees.
The disadvantages of factory life were endured largely by
children
Factory workers had their grievances heard through a process called:
collective bargaining
The merging of several businesses into one is called a(n) ...
consolidation
Problems facing tenement dwellers included:
cramped quarters, poor sanitary conditions, crime and immorality, poor housing.
The basic component a nation does NOT need to become industrialized is:
fertile soil
The blast furnace:
has great quantities of air forced throughout
Factors luring rural families to the city included:
higher wages, better life style, variety of entertainment.
Coke, an essential improvement in the iron industry:
is coal with certain impurities removed
The law of supply and demand is foundational to a ... economy.
laissez-faire
The Industrial Revolution needed:
many new inventions
Corporations found success in using:
modernized machinery, superior production methods, disciplined organization and management
The exclusive control of a product by a business is called a(n) ... of that product.
monopoly
