World History: Unit 7 - The Industrial Revolution

Collective or government ownership of production and distribution is:

socialism

Whitney

standardized parts

Watt

steam engine

Fulton

steamboat

Deere

steel plow

Morse

telegraph

Bell

telephone

Field

transatlantic cable

Corporations aided the United States' economy by producing a larger variety of merchandise.

true

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

true

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

true

Residents of the Northern States invested heavily in early United States industry.

true

The change from hand labor to machine brought about the Industrial Revolution.

true

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

true

The mass movement of people to the cities is called:

urbanization

Wright

airplane

Ford

assembly line production

Which of the following items were improved because of the writings of men like Disraeli and Dickens?

child labor laws and factory conditions

A basic requirement needed by a nation for industrial growth is an educated work force.

false

A nation's industry has little influence in the outcome of a war.

false

McAdam

improved road construction

Edison

light bulb

Marx

Communist Manifesto

Negotiation between labor and management is called:

collective bargaining

Merging several businesses into one is called (a):

consolidation

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

false

Which is not an affect of the Crusades in sparking the industrial age:

interest in factory development

Smith

laissez-faire

Which of the following established an early example in discipline and specific work responsibilities that would later be copied during the Industrial Revolution?

monasteries

Which of the following did NOT give a boost to early American industry?

monopolies

The exclusive control of a product by a business is called a(n) ____________ of that product.

monopoly

Laissez-faire is the term used to mean Choose... noninterference interference by the government.

noninterference

Drake

oil well

Gutenberg

printing press