Industrial Revolution
Across
- 7. Period of major technological change from about 1750 to the 1900s when machines replaced much human labor
- 8. The working class in Marx’s model of society
- 10. Person who helped spread the textile industry to the United States
- 11. Money used to invest in new technology and industry
- 14. Business owned by stockholders who share in profits
- 15. People who bring together money, labor, and inventions to create businesses
- 16. Author of The Wealth of Nations and major thinker of capitalism
- 19. Key metal used to build machines, tools, and railways
- 20. Powerful machine improved by the 1700s that allowed factories to run continuously
- 21. Large supplies of useful materials like iron and coal
- 24. Belief in the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
- 25. Adam Smith’s idea that the free market guides the economy
- 26. Production moved from homes to large buildings with machines
- 27. Early major industry in Britain focused on cloth and cotton
- 28. Taking over and fencing off land from peasant farmers
Down
- 1. Idea that business should operate with little or no government interference
- 2. Farming changes that helped increase food and support population growth
- 3. 1848 work by Marx that described class struggle and revolution
- 4. Economic system where society or the government controls production
- 5. Major fuel source that powered factories and steam technology
- 6. Nickname for Britain as the most productive country in the world
- 9. Movement of people from rural areas to cities
- 12. Economic system where private individuals and firms own production
- 13. Socialist thinker who argued history is shaped by class conflict
- 17. Rapid growth in people that increased the labor supply
- 18. Worker groups that fought for better wages, hours, and conditions
- 22. Thinker who warned about population growth and food shortages
- 23. Restoring soil by switching which crops are planted each season