Test: The industrial Revolution8

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Whitney

standardized parts

Watt

steam engine

Fulton

steamboat

Deere

steel plow

Bell

telephone

Early American industry was given a boost by:

war transportation and communication improvements, new power sources ,mass production methods

The merging of several businesses into one is called a(n)

Consolidation

The basic requirements needed by a nation for industrial growth are:

Raw material, work force, capital

Morse

Telegraph

Urbanization and tenement living were two social results of the Industrial Revolution.

True

Wright

airplane

Ford

assembly line

Laissez-faire economics opposes government intervention in

Business

What are negotiations between labor and management called?

Collective bargaining

Socialization

Collective or government ownership of production and distribution is known as

Marx

Communist Manifesto

Southern plantation owners invested heavily in early United States industry.

False

The exclusive control of a product by a business is known as an antitrust.

False

The freedom of private business to operate for profit competitively is called the _____ system.

Free-enterprise

McAdam

Improved roads

The change from hand labor to machine brought about the:

Industrial Revolution

Ford's assembly-line production greatly ____ the cost per unit.

Reduced

Urbanization

The mass movement of people to the cities was called:

Field

Transatlantic Table

Industry is usually one of the major deciding factors in a victorious outcome in war.

True

Monasteries established an early example in discipline and specific work responsibilities for the coming industry.

True

Not only did war aid industry's growth, but industry also aided war.

True

The Crusades revived interest in travel and business among people in Europe.

True

The inventions of Whitney, McCormick, and Deere brought about an agricultural revolution in the United States.

True

Factors improving the conditions of factory workers included:

child labor laws, labor unions, writings of Dickens and Disraeli, collective bargaining

Inventions and developments of the Industrial Revolution in England and Europe included:

flying shuttle, spinning jenny, printing press, factory system, labor laws

Smith

laissez-faire

Edison

light bulb

Corporations aided the United States' economy by:

lowering unemployment, better quality products, larger variety of merchandise, lowering prices

Drake

oil well

Gutenburg

printing press


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