Vocabulary Potpourri InnovationsIR I IR II

Vocab $100 A person interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make profits.

Vocab $100 What is an Entreprenour?

Vocab $200 An economic system where society, usually in the form of government, owns and controls the means of production. (ex. Factories, utilities).

Vocab $200 What is socialism/communism?

Vocab $300 A manufacturing method, pioneered by Henry Ford, that allowed a much more efficient production of goods.

Vocab $300 What is the assembly line?

Vocab $400 According to Marx, society was broken up into two classes, bourgeoisie and this working class.

Vocab $400 What is the proletariat?

Vocab $500 This group of Marxists thought that if workers formed political parties, instead of violent revolutions, they could achieve positive changes in labor.

Vocab $500 Who are revisionists?

Potpourri $100 At the beginning of the first Industrial Revolution, laborers moved to the cities from these areas and occupations.

Potpourri $100 What are farms/farmers?

Potpourri $200 Along with Frederich Engels, he authored The Communist Manifesto, which detailed the struggle between the classes.

Potpourri $200 Who is Karl Marx?

Potpourri $300 He invented the telephone in 1876.

Potpourri $300 Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

Potpourri $400 One of the reasons Britain was an ideal site for the IR was that they had a ready supply of money or this, to invest in machines and factories.

Potpourri $400 What is capital?

Potpourri $500 The steam engine, which revolutionized many factories, was invented by this Scottsman.

Potpourri $500 Who is James Watt?

Innovations $100 This shocking “invention” allowed for factories to run 24 hours a day.

Innovations $100 What is electricity?

Innovations $200 Steel became cheaper thanks to this process which made it easier to produce.

Innovations $200 What is the Bessemer Process?

Innovations $300 Early versions of this new mode of transportation included the Rocket and the Blucher.

Innovations $300 What is the train/locomotive?

Innovations $400 Henry Cort introduced a process known as puddling, which made this product stronger, causing its demand to soar during the First Industrial Revolution.

Innovations $400 What was iron?

Innovations $500 The flying shuttle and the spinning jenny made this hands-on method of producing in one’s home inefficient.

Innovations $500 What is the cottage industry?

IR I $100 The First Industrial Revolution impacted this industry the most.

IR I $100 What is the textile industry?

IR I $200 What was Britain’s most valuable textile product?

IR I $200 What is cotton?

IR I $300 Provide THREE causes of the Industrial Revolution.

IR I $300 What is Agricultural revolution Population growth, Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution, Geography: navigable rivers and good harbors, Raw materials: coal and iron

IR I $400 How much of the population belonged to the working class during the Industrial Revolution?

IR I $400 What is 80%?

IR I $500 The belief that people should be as free as possible from government restraints is known as this…

IR I $500 What is industrial capitalism?

IR II $100 Why was steel preferable as a building material over iron?

IR II $100 What is it did not rust/was stronger?

IR II $200 Provide two of the 4 things the Second Industrial Revolution was based on.

IR II $200 What is steel, chemicals, electricity, petroleum?

IR II $300 This man sent the first radio wave across the Atlantic during the Second Industrial Revolution.

IR II $300 Who was Guglielmo Marconi?

IR II $400 Provide 2 of the three reasons why consumers could afford to buy more goods during the Second Industrial Revolution.

IR II $400 What are an increase in wages, a decrease in prices due to lower transportation costs, and mass production of goods thanks to the assembly line?

IR II $500 What were the two economic zones that developed during the Second IR and where were they located?

IR II $500 What is the industrialized zone in western Europe, and the agricultural zone in southern and eastern Europe.