Question 1

What did landowners do during the enclosure movement in England?

Accepted Answer

Took back the rights to their land from small farmers

Question 2

Machine tools that could create part after part of the same size in shape

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Interchangeable parts

Question 3

Why did Japan begin industrializing in the late 1800s

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The new Meiji government pursued a course of modernization

Question 4

Importance of the growth of the domestic system

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A shift toward a new form of production

Question 5

Henry Ford was the first large sale manufacturer to use what method of production

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The assembly line method of production

Question 6

One effect of the mechanization of agriculture

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Farmers were able to make more healthy foods available

Question 7

How did large companies come to dominate industrial economies?

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By buying smaller companies or driving them out of business

Question 8

James Watts contribution to industrialization

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He invented a more efficient steam engine

Question 9

State one reason why Great Britain became the first nation to industrialize

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A government that supported property rights

Question 10

Why was the textile industry the first industry to be transformed by mechanization

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Because cloth making was very laborious and time-consuming

Question 11

Why did French factories rely more water power than steam power?

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France lacked significant coal resources

Question 12

What invention made the expansion of the steel industry in America possible

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The Bessemer process

Question 13

European nation that led in the chemical, electrical equipment, and weapons industries

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Germany

Question 14

Why did Germany industrialize fairly late?

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Germany was not a unified state for most of the 1800s

Question 15

What was one factor that allowed for the development of mass production?

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the specialization of workers in a single step of the manufacturing process

Question 16

What role did the banking system play in industrialization?

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They provided loans to industrialist and manufacturers

Question 17

Reasons why working conditions in the factories were so poor

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Low wages, dangerous conditions, long hours

Question 18

What is not a reason why working conditions in the factories were so poor

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Workers having a large variety of tasks

Question 19

Why were women and children desirable employees?

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They could be paid less than men

Question 20

Define sweatshops

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Small factories with low wages and unhealthy conditions

Question 21

One reason why children worked in industry in addition to their parents

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A child's wages made a financial difference

Question 22

Why did children suffer from lack of education?

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Working in factories did not allow time to go to school

Question 23

Why did child labor laws have little effect?

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They were often ignored and poorly enforced

Question 24

Define tenements

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Dirty, overcrowded apartment buildings

Question 25

Reasons for the spread of disease in tenements

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Lack of sanitation, overcrowding, lack of fresh air, and light

Question 26

Three main goals of labor union

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Higher wages, shorter hours, better working conditions

Question 27

Define strike

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A movement when workers stopped working until their demands are met

Question 28

Why were the knights of labor initially, an attractive labor organization?

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It excepted skilled and unskilled workers, women, and African-Americans

Question 29

How did few large companies come to Dominate industrial economies?

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corporations were joining together in various ways

Question 30

What was the Marx's political theory that advocated ownership of the means of production

Accepted Answer

Socialism

Question 31

Describe the concept of laissez-faire

Accepted Answer

government should not interfere with the economy

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