Unit 6 Vocabulary Crossword-Industrial Revolution
Across
- 3. A risk taker who starts a new business within the economic system of capitalism. They risk losing money and time they invest, but can be rewarded if their business is successful.
- 4. New inventions like the Flying Shuttle, Spinning Jenny, Crompton's Mule, and Cartwrights Power Loom made spinning thread and weaving cloth faster, these were housed in factories.
- 7. controlled steel industry
- 8. father of communism. Wrote the Communist Manifesto.
- 13. the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
- 16. Changing which crop you are growing to ensure the best soil quality year after year.
- 18. an economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all.
- 21. an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit.
- 22. Apartments for factory workers
- 24. when one person or group owns all aspects of a product and has little to no competition
Down
- 1. controlled oil industry
- 2. money used to invest in a business
- 5. invented the steam engine.
- 6. land, labor, capital
- 9. a period of technological improvement and increased crop productivity that occurred during the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe
- 10. also called the domestic system. Process of making cloth where each step in cloth making is performed in different households. Used before the Industrial Revolution.
- 11. organizations representing workers' rights. Helped improve working conditions in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, but often became corrupt.
- 12. A strategy used by unions. Workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to comply with demands.
- 14. the idea that the government should not interfere with or regulate industries and businesses.
- 15. an economic system in which all means of production- land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses – are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally.
- 17. father of capitalism. Wrote The Wealth of Nations.
- 19. Movement of population to the cities – commoners and poorer farmers moved to seek work in new industrial towns.
- 20. belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion.
- 23. banking tycoon