Chapter 19 Study Guide
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During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?
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The cotton gin was a machine that could
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In the early 1700s, Abraham Darby’s experiments led him to
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The Luddites were a
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The first factories developed in what industry?
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Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because
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“The greatest happiness for the greatest number” was a goal of
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Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it
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Abraham Darby made better quality iron by
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The slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in Britain by
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In what way were railroads an improvement over canals?
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What best describes David Ricardo’s “Iron Law of Wages?”
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Germany formed a social democracy in the 1860s to change gradually
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Land enclosure in the 1600s and 1700s resulted in
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Steam became an efficient power source because of improvements made by
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The development of steam power enabled the growth of
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The putting-out system was a method of
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Laws called “factory acts” were passed in the early 1800s to
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What was a long-term result of the Industrial Revolution?
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Jeremy Bentham believed that
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Which group established communities where all work is shared and all property is
owned in common?
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The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities wee part of the
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Most early factory workers were women because
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According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was
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According to socialists, the solution to poverty and injustice was